Defragging your drive a bit quicker

Did you know that in windows XP you can defrag your hard disk on the command line. This is something I have used for a very long time now and just had the thought that it might be worth passing this on.

Why use the command line defrag over the graphical version? Simple... its faster and that's good enough reason for me.

Just type the following at the command line:-

defrag c:

(or what ever drive you wish)

If you need to stop the defrag operation ctrl-c exits this gracefully (i.e. doing a little tidy up or something in the background, not just exiting the process point blank)

You can get more details on the this command with the usual

defrag /?

I prefer to use

defrag c: -a -v

first just to see the state of the drive and then I run the same command without the -a to do the actual defrag.