I used analyze in the disk defragmenter for our windows 2003 server. It shows that our server is heavily fragmented. It is a Windows 2003 Standard Server, and it runs our company website. Do we need to free up some disk space on the server to make defragging work properly? It takes forever for a defrag to run
I asked our 3rd party server administrator about it, and here is what he told me. I'm just trying to find out if he is correct, or if I'm right to be concerned:
I asked our 3rd party server administrator about it, and here is what he told me. I'm just trying to find out if he is correct, or if I'm right to be concerned:
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Honestly Paul it really doesn't matter. The defrag is going to optimize access to large chunks of files, something the web server doesn't have.
Being a web server, there are many, many small files the server is dealing with and it doesn't matter where on the disk they are located, fragmented or not. The reason the report is not showing a defragmented drive even after performing the operation is because the majority of files on that server are tiny and also because the server is heavily used not allowing enough quiet time.
I've had to fix servers before that have had catastrophic failure from doing defrags over and over. I can try it again sometime once I figure out the absolute slowest traffic time out of the month. If it doesn't work the second time I'd say leave well enough alone.
