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I've just defragged this hard drive for the first time. It took...um a really long time. All last night and it only finished a couple of hours ago.

But it managed to magically find an extra 30 gigs or so of empty space. I'm not sure if it were supposed to do that, but I'm taking it to mean that I'm supposed to defrag hard drives on a more regular basis. Also, the shop that sold the hard drive cases for reasonably cheap is gone now, and I still don't know what kind of hard drive my old computer had. Getting things off of it is looking worse and worse.



Edit: also, the files that didn't defrag are the files that would have probably benefited the most, so I'm running the program again.

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What brain-dead filesystem would let a file incorporate more than one unfilled cluster? Packing multiple unrelated files into a single cluster is a fairly advanced filesystem technique (Reiser4 is the only one I know of offhand that does it, but maybe ext4 does too) that I wouldn't expect to see in NTFS and I know for sure is definitely not in any form of FAT.