Microsoft KB Archive/934972

= Explanation of terms in the Winternals Defrag Manager log files =

Article ID: 934972

Article Last Modified on 7/26/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Winternals Defrag Manager 3.0
 * Winternals Defrag Manager 4.0

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SUMMARY
This article defines terms that are found in the Winternals Defrag Manager log files.



MORE INFORMATION
Total Excess Fragments: The number of fragments on a disk beyond the default number of fragments that each file has when it is created. By design, the NTFS file system uses a single fragment to create each file. This single fragment is not counted toward the Total Excess Fragments value.

Average Fragments per file: The total number of fragments that Defrag Manager discovers divided by the total number of files that Defrag Manager defragments during a particular defrag operation.

Average fragments per file = (Total number of fragments) / (Total number of files)

The ideal number of fragments per file is 1.00. In the NTFS file system, this ideal number will never be reduced.

Excess free space fragments: The number of free space fragments that are scattered throughout the data area of the drive or of the partition. Winternals Defrag Manager collects these free space fragments, and it puts them all in one location so that all the free disk space occupies a single contiguous block.

Excluded files: The number of files that Winternals Defrag Manager has not touched, in compliance with user-defined settings in the schedule.

Total moves: The total number of moves that Winternals Defrag Manager performs on files and on fragments when it defragments a particular drive.

Additional query words: Winternals KB#: 30073

Keywords: kbinfo kbexpertiseinter KB934972

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