Kevin Brown said:
>
> Odd, I've used things like Partition Magic and have never had to defrag
> a drive  (NTFS, FAT or FAT32) before resizing.  I did have to make sure
> that it cleanly  unmounted (e.g. clean shutdown of the OS, not hard
> poweroff) or PQmagic would  bitch up a storm and not do anything with
> the drive.

Partition Magic and similar commercial tools actually move data around to
match the choosen partition size changes.  In essence, they do the defrag
while they run, if needed.

Most FS/OSS tools for resizing partitions do not defrag for you. 
Therefore they will only resize where the new boundaries do not cross
places where data is stored.  Defragmenting the hard drive compacts the
area where the data is stored allowing more latitude for partition size
changes.

Alan



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