Does XP Portion of HD auto defrag when OS X is running?

[bbrosemer]

If there is anyone that has information whether or not the windows portion of a HD gets Defragged while OS X is running that owuld be greatly appreciated...

 

[robbieduncan]

Nope. OSXs auto-defrag only applies to altered files on mounted HFS+ partitions. Win XP uses NTFS so no auto-defrag.

 

[bbrosemer]

But if I have the hard drive setup as fat 32 for windows so that OS X can recgonize will it auto defrag I know for the NTFS system that it won't.

Nope. OSXs auto-defrag only applies to altered files on mounted HFS+ partitions. Win XP uses NTFS so no auto-defrag.

 

[robbieduncan]

But if I have the hard drive setup as fat 32 for windows so that OS X can recgonize will it auto defrag I know for the NTFS system that it won't.

As I already said OSX auto-defrag only works on HFS+ partitions that are mounted (and even then only on files that are changed or touched). FAT32 is not HFS+ so it won't auto-defragment.

 

[spacehog371]

only a few more days before I'm running windows myself... wish it would auto defrag though.