""Walter Wang [MSFT]"" <wawang@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Trapulo,
>
> There's no official documentation on how to use defrag api from .NET, but
> there's some example code:
>
> #Jeffrey Wall's WebLog : Defrag API C# wrappers
> http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffrey_wall/archive/2004/09/13/229137.aspx
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Regards,
> Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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"Trapulo" <trapulo2@noemail.noemail> wrote in message
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> Thank you, this is a starting point.
>
> Is there the official documentation about defrag api? I cannot find it.
>
> thanks
>
>
> ""Walter Wang [MSFT]"" <wawang@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>> Hi Trapulo,
>>
>> There's no official documentation on how to use defrag api from .NET, but
>> there's some example code:
>>
>> #Jeffrey Wall's WebLog : Defrag API C# wrappers
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffrey_wall/archive/2004/09/13/229137.aspx
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
>> Microsoft Online Community Support
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""Walter Wang [MSFT]"" <wawang@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Willy for your input.
>
> Hi Trapulo,
>
> Would you please let us know what's your requirement here?
>
> You may find following information helpful to understand how defragment
> works:
>
> #Inside Windows NT Disk Defragmenting
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/information/DiskDefragmenting.
> mspx
>
> To add to Willy's suggestion about defragment using WMI, please refer to
> following document:
>
> #Defragmenting Disks the Windows 2003 Way
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/win2003/defrag.mspx
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Regards,
> Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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""Walter Wang [MSFT]"" <wawang@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Trapulo,
>
> We currently don't have much public documentation on the low level
> defragment APIs, I suggest you to contact our Advisory Service for more
> support on this.

> By the way, if your objective here is to make a single file continuous,
> you
> might find contig.exe useful:
>
> #Contig v1.54
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Contig.mspx
> <quote>
> Contig is a single-file defragmenter that attempts to make files
> contiguous
> on disk. Its perfect for quickly optimizing files that are continuously
> becoming fragmented, or that you want to ensure are in as few fragments as
> possible.
> </quote>