If your contig.exe is the one I'm thinking of (from the sysinternals crew), then it might be reasonable to just use the -a option to analyse current defragmentation without actually rearranging things. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspx
There used to be commercial programs that did MFT defragmentation - Diskeeper was one of them, and also the Winternals Defrag Manager.. Don't know if they're still around, though. Kurt On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Chinnery, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > No the Z drive was on my machine. The error also occurs on the actual file > server. > MFT - I was thinking something along those lines, too. There is a program > called contig.exe that is supposed to fix fragmentation issues with index > files but I told my boss I'm not running that unless PSS tells me to. I'd > hate to have it screw things up so bad we have to start over. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 5:01 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: File limitation error:updated > > > That's awesome! Same number of digits, but it doesn't like the name. > And, it's nowhere near the path length limitations we've discussed. > > MFT fragmentation perhaps? > > Is that Z: drive local to the machine, or is it mapped to a share on another > machine? Just curious - it shouldn't make a difference... > > I am now officially consumed with curiousity - do keep posting updates. > > Kurt > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
