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Author Topic: Small files not moved when using -a 6 option  (Read 1699 times)
safedisc2
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« on: July 18, 2007, 06:25:27 pm »

Win XP, FAT32 partition

Some small files are not moved when using -a 6 option.
Files are usually smaller than 32kb (partition cluster size) - coincidence?

situation on disk
C:\directory\subdirectory1\
C:\directory\subdirectory2\

Running  jkdefrag -a 6 C:\directory
moves all larger files in all subdirectories to the end of the disk
but some small files in C:\directory\ , C:\directory\subdirectory1\ and C:\directory\subdirectory2\ are skipped.

They are marked during analysis, but not moved.

analysis and moving to the end (files marked in the middle of unused space)

finished (marked files still remain in the middle)



When running jkdefrag -a 6 C:\directory\subdirectory1 and jkdefrag -a 6 C:\directory\subdirectory2
all remaining small files are now moved as expected

jkdefrag -a 6 C:\directory\*.* has to be used to move small files in C:\directory

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I tried again on 2nd partition with 16kB cluster size and as you can see,
all files smaller than 16kB stayed where they were before jkdefrag -a 6 D:\Games\ttwin95 (or D:\Games ) defragmentation.

Running jkdefrag -a 6 up D:\Games\ttwin95\newgrfw moved them all to the end.

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« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2007, 05:38:52 pm »

Quote from: "safedisc2"
Some small files are not moved when using -a 6 option.

I'm sorry, but I have no answer for you. JkDefrag should either move all the files, or none at all. Not just the big files. It doesn't look at the size of the files. The mask that you can specify with the "-a 6" option sometimes behaves a bit weird, an oddity thanks to Microsoft. But like I said, it should either move all the files, or none at all.
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