Number 244 - September 2003

Another Way to Defrag
by Bob Thomson, Tacoma Open Group
The other day I couldn't get defrag to work from the Run box. What to do. I went into DOS mode and entered the command defrag from the C:\> prompt.    C:\>defrag    The following appeared on the screen.    Windows Disk Defragmenter    Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp and    Executive Software International, Inc.    Usage:    defrag [-a] [-f] [-v] [-?]	volume = drive letter or mount point (d: or d:\vol\mountpoint)    -a Analyze only    -f Force defragmentation even if free space is low    -v Verbose output    -? Display this help text    I entered defrag c: -f and lo and behold the system began to defragment the C: drive. There was no on-screen display but the drive light was active and continued for about an hour. The -v verbose selection gives a screenful of information about file structures but does not give any progress report such as percent completed.
Number 244 - September 2003