DEFRAG: Defragmenting the System Drive
In Chapter 25, you learned how to defragment a volume using Windows 8’s Disk Defragmenter program. If you want to schedule a defragment or perform this chore from a batch file, you have to use the DEFRAG command-line tool. Here’s the syntax:
DEFRAG disks [task(s)] [/A] [/C] [/E] [/F] [/H] [/M] [/O] [/R] [/T] [/U] [/V]
disks
Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon) of each disk you want to defragment (separate multiple drives with a space).
task(s)
As this book went to press, Microsoft had not provided any information on this new parameter.
/A
Tells DEFRAG only to analyze the disk.
/C
Tells DEFRAG to defragment all the system’s drives.
/D
Tells DEFRAG to run a traditional optimization (that is, one ...
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