Defragging tends to move things toward the low end of the drive,
therefore there is less and cleaner "stuff" for the partition squeezer
to move out to empty the area that will be used for the new partition.
In other words, not necessary, but usually a very good idea.
-mj-
Kevin Brown wrote:
>>> He's planning on defragging it before he comes.
>
>
>> Make sure that it is the last thing he does with the computer before
>> we take care of it.
>> OTHERWISE.....
>>
>> WE'LL TAKE CARE OF IT!
>>
>> HAHAHAHAHAAAAA
>
>
> 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.
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