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Why does my hard drive space decrease after defrag?

Post in reply to: Anne


The space for Volume Shadow Copies has probably increased due to moved
files being seen as new or changed by the system.

Use the disk cleanup utility and have it delete all but the most
recent restore point and the shadow copies.

Post in reply to: Anne


Use Disk Cleanup and once you get to the main page of the program be sure to
go to the "More Options" tab and click the "Clean up .." button in the
"System Restore and Shadow Copies" section to clear out all but the most
recent restore points.

Saucy

Post in reply to: Anne

Thank you Jim and Saucy.

Post in reply to: JCG
defrag volume [/a] Analyzes the volume and displays a summary of the
analysis report.

defrag volume [/a] [/v]

defrag volume [/v] Displays the complete analysis and defragmentation
reports.

When used in combination with /a, displays only the analysis report. When
used alone, displays both the analysis and defragmentation reports.

defrag volume [/f] Forces defragmentation of the volume regardless of
whether it needs to be defragmented.

/? : Displays help at the command prompt.
-=-

Post in reply to: ????????l
Thanks for the info. However, what does -c and -g do. Maybe it is an error
in Vista setup?

Post in reply to: JCG
Hi, JCG.

As ????????l said:

At the Command Prompt, simply type:
defrag /?

That should produce what I call a mini-Help file that shows the switches and
parameters available with the defrag command - and the syntax for using
them. This shows that all the switches use the slash "/" character, rather
than hyphen "-". Many commands will actually accept a variety of such
characters; I don't know if defrag will accept "-" for "/". And they
usually are not fussy about "c" or "C" - but they are insistent on the colon
when referring to volume ("drive") letters.

Use defrag /c to "Perform the operation on all volumes". Specify defrag C:
to operate only on Drive C:.

This does not show -i or -g as available switches, and I don't know what
those do. They may be a part of Task Scheduler, rather than of Defrag.

RC
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