Is it okay to defrag Windows in Boot Camp?

[ejdge]

Is it safe to do so even if both Leopard and Windows partitions are on the same drive?

 

[mreg376]

Is it safe to do so even if both Leopard and Windows partitions are on the same drive?

Why not? It's only defraging the Windows partition.

 

[JNB]

Yeah, it's fine, as--mentioned before--they're on separate partitions (or logical volumes, since we are a *nix-centric platform here ).

Just make sure you do it while booted in Windows, not running it as a VM. I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think that it is advisable to defrag a VM bottle.

 

[pimentoLoaf]

Yeah, it's fine, as--mentioned before--they're on separate partitions (or logical volumes, since we are a *nix-centric platform here ).

Just make sure you do it while booted in Windows, not running it as a VM. I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think that it is advisable to defrag a VM bottle.

I tried defrag inside VirtualPC years ago and it messed up the drive.

Under Bootcamp you'd be working with a bunch of files on what appears to the OS to be a certain-sized drive; a VM grabs a chunk of disk space and Leopard thinks it's a very large data file or program.

Not sure if defragging the entire MacOS partition would cause problems with the VM.