Does Diskeeper do any good on a virtual drive?

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ToddAndMargo
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Does Diskeeper do any good on a virtual drive?

Post by ToddAndMargo »

Hi All,

I had purchased Diskeeper before I had decided to run my M$ WS03 as a virtual machine. Does Diskeeper do any good on a virtual hard drive?

Many thanks,
-T
MarkCranness
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Re: Does Diskeeper do any good on a virtual drive?

Post by MarkCranness »

Yes and no.

If you created your VDI as fixed size, then yes.

If you created your VDI as Dynamic (the default), then not as much: you must also periodically sdelete/clonehd/compact/contig* the VDI file as well so that the host VDI file is defraged
(*) Or something.
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