Will defragmenting windows vista affect mint?

[blake.]

the title says it all. thanks

[FedoraRefugee]

not if it is not on the Windows partition. If it is? I don''t know, good question! I suppose if the file were fragmented it could move things around. I wouldnt think it would effect it any more than it effects any other file types though.

[DrHu]

Not likely, not even if it is a guest OS on a Windows partition, since that file that would support the guest OS (Sun's Virtualbox or VMWare), will simply be moved around as per the windows ntfs defragging methods: intact
--if it is a separate windows | Linux partition: then absolutely no effect on the other untouched OS partition..

Defrag in windows, old or new usually just means reclaiming free space in files and moving all files to the front (beginning ) of the hard drive partition, and relocating the free space to location following all moved files
--as long as there is no power failure during the move/copy operations, then it is unlikely that there will ever be a problem with that defrag, unless the software itself or a version of it has some serious bug..

[blake.]

Not likely, not even if it is a guest OS on a Windows partition, since that file that would support the guest OS (Sun's Virtualbox or VMWare), will simply be moved around as per the windows ntfs defragging methods: intact
--if it is a separate windows | Linux partition: then absolutely no effect on the other untouched OS partition..

Defrag in windows, old or new usually just means reclaiming free space in files and moving all files to the front (beginning ) of the hard drive partition, and relocating the free space to location following all moved files
--as long as there is no power failure during the move/copy operations, then it is unlikely that there will ever be a problem with that defrag, unless the software itself or a version of it has some serious bug..

the defrag tool is from microsoft, so it propbably does have some serious bugs . thank you.

[randomizer]

I doubt it has any notable bugs but it certainly has serious and deliberate limitations unless you use it from the command line.

[blake.]

I doubt it has any notable bugs but it certainly has serious and deliberate limitations unless you use it from the command line.

whats the command?

[recent-convert]

Command for Windows defrag? Useless trivia you say?

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defrag C:\

Needs to be run as admin if you're on Win 7. Switches include /a to analyse and /v for verbose output.