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[Ignacio Solis]

* Peter Belew (peterbe at sonic.net) said:
>  Here the question is "what does 'defrag' really mean?". It can mean
> just making all the blocks of a file contiguous, which makes random
> access to the file simpler. Or it can mean moving files down toward
> the "beginning" of a disk, which makes allocating big contiguous files
> simpler; and for the purposes of  this discussion it makes it simpler
> to split partitions. Or it can mean some combination of both.

This reminds me of the early norton days. When you could select 3 or 4 types of
defrag. Like defrag "empty space" so all data would be moved to the beginning
of the disk, or defrag files, where all files would be put into contiguous
space. At some point in the development of the NT defrag I thought they were
actually going to keep a use-frequency of files, and the defrag putting the
most commonly used files together, but that never happened.

Nacho

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