No, it doesn't, but if you want to shrink it you need to move your files to the beginning of the disk. That's what you can do with a defrag.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Hank Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe I'm missing the point here, but defrag won't shrink a volume. It > will only optimize it. > > > > *Regards,* > Hank Arnold > > > > Twitter: @Hank_PCDoc > > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hank.arnold.96 > > My Blog: > *http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/*<http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/> > > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "J- P" <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: 3/31/2014 9:56:24 AM > Subject: [NTSysADM] shrinking OS volume fails and crashes > > > Hi all, > > > After having deleted a huge directory (400GB) I am unable to shrink the > volume (2012 r2 ) > > > Disk mgmnt, shows capacity 1024GB free space 980.84GB 96& free > > in defrag , or Optimization as its called now, shows 50% space efficiency > , is there something I'm missing > > And it doesn't matter if I try to shrink it by 1 , 10 or 100 GB the system > just crashes, then upon restart i get windows had an error > > any help would be appreciated > > >
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