Force together

[kuze]

Is there any method i can use to bring my large video files to the front of the disk without them being fragmented?

[gerdb]

Try the following:

• Move everything to the back end: -a 6 x:\*
• Try to handle unmovable files (see main page for hints)
• Do a fast optimize on your large files: -a 3 x:\MyLargeVideoFilesFolder\*

But why would you want to do that? This will surely take quite some time. And large files that are mostly read sequentially (like video files) do not cause performance degradations when they are slightly fragmented. If you want to speed up video editing, you're better off buying a second HD and putting your work buffer there so that read and write operations happen on different disks.

[kuze]

The concept is to keep the large stuff towards the beginning of the disk and everything else in the back. In hindsight, would it have been a good idea to have formatted the disk as FAT32 instead of NTFS?

[boco]

would it have been a good idea to have formatted the disk as FAT32 instead of NTFS?

No, FAT32 has a filesize limit of ~4GiB for a single file, I wouldn't recommend it.

[jeroen]

The concept is to keep the large stuff towards the beginning of the disk and everything else in the back.

It will be relatively easy to do with JkDefrag version 4, on which I am working right now. In version 3 it is only possible by doing something like what gerdb has proposed, first move everything to the end of the disk, then move only the video files to the beginning. After that you can optionally move all the rest of the data to just after the video files. The commands are something like this:

Code:

jkdefrag -a 6 d:\
jkdefrag d:\*.avi
jkdefrag -e *.avi d:\

[kuze]

The problem with gerdb's solution is that optimization doesnt put the large stuff at the beginning, just anything it wants kinda closer to the front, which isnt good enough. It would be great if (5)force together could  move the file to the bottom without fraggin the file. (6) Move to end of disk Doesnt frag them which worked great!

This is what it looks like now after doing the gerdb method.
The big chunks are dvd9 iso's and bluray x264. The yellow part at the beginning was my own doing, I purposly (5)'d my 2.4gig .mkv. Its all there just not in order :\

[jeroen]

The problem with gerdb's solution is that optimization doesnt put the large stuff at the beginning, just anything it wants kinda closer to the front, which isnt good enough.

Your disk is very full. I'm sorry, but the trick will not work with a very full disk. I guess you will have to wait for JkDefrag v4.

p.s. You can attach pictures to a posting right here on the forum, no need to upload to another website.