Re: defragmenting/resizing
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 19:54, Bilal Ahmad wrote:
> I have bought recently a HP Pavilion ze5300 laptop w/ a 40G hard drive (38G
> actually), and with Windows XP Pro. I want to partition the hard drive so
> that I leave 18G for XP Pro and 20G for Debian. Windows Disk Defragmenter
> leaves a chunk of files right in the middle of the disk:
>
>
> /////*****************_________________*****____________________________________
>
>
>
> /// ---- System files
> *** ---- Contiguous files
> ___ ---- Free space
>
>
>
> I have tried Diskeeper as well (including at boot time), and couldn't get
> those files to move towards the beginning. In the notes somewhere it says
> that Diskeeper won't move files that are in the Windows exclusions lists,
> such as the space for hibernate mode.
>
> Is there another way to get the those files to move towards the beginning
> without having to wipe out the whole disk first? Any help would be greatly
> appreciated. (PS: This will be my first attempt at installing a linux
> system. There is no floppy disk in this computer; It has a DVD-ROM/CD-RW,
> however.)
>
> Thanks.
> Bilal
>
Depending on what the files you have the problems with contain (iirc
system files are green under defrag) and on how much memory your system
has, you can try disabling hibernation, and setting the starting swap
size to the minimum (I think 2M), this should remove the offending files
(if this is what they are). You can later restore the settings.
--
Micha Feigin
michf@math.tau.ac.il
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