Is there any tool in puppy to defrag an NTFS partition?

[mr_gs]

I have a NTFS partition in my HDD that is mostly fragmented. I have fossapup64 9.5 installed in my USB. Is there any tool to defrag NTFS partition. I tried e4defrag, but it works only on ext partitions.

[snoring_cat]

Hi mr_gs,

I haven't tried it, but you could use "shake". You can try getting it from http://ppa.launchpad.net/un-brice/ppa/u ... /shake-fs/ I don't know which Puppy Linux distribution you are using, so don't know if that version helps you.

Using shake can be as simple as

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shake /mnt/sda2

[Flash]

Here's another way that I believe will work:

1. Copy to another drive all the files you want to save from the original NTFS drive. I'm not sure if filesystem of the second drive matters, because of the metadata. To be safe, it probably should be NTFS.

2. Reformat the original drive to NTFS (Gparted can do this or you can use a Windows utility.)

3. Copy the files you saved in step 1 back to the reformatted drive.

[Wiz57]

Not sure I would try defragging an NTFS drive from another operating system...does that partition
boot Windows? Which version? If you've tried the built-in defragmenter in WinXP and later, and
your results weren't to taste, you might try something like "Defraggler", it is freeware. Works
well enough, just will take a bit of time if the drive is badly fragmented.
Wiz