Of course it can be done. But its more of a consolidation of logical data rather than physical placement on the drive. Yup, why not? A defrag is at the OS logical device level. As far as the OS is ...

If it were up to me, I’d never defragment my PC’s drives. I’m one of those people who prefers to have Windows’ maintenance operations done in the background, without my direct intervention. So it ...

Difficult to defragment a hard disk that contains your booted operating system. Use a boot floppy or cd-rom, and try running the defrag utility from another hard disk or media.

Hi, There are the updated patches for ext4 online defrag. I have addressed the comments that I had got about defrag V1 (http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m ...

"Defrag" is short for "defragment," which is a maintenance task required by your hard drives. Most hard drives have spinning platters, with data stored in different places around that platter. When ...

A large number of companies are still running XP. To keep your client machines running smoothly, it's always good to defrag the hard drive on a regular schedule. You can do it manually, but would need ...