TrueCrypt fragmentation question

[slipd]

Hi guys,

Is it usual for a truecrypt container to be so fragmented (and impossible to defrag!) after very little use? I've been messing about with 20gb container with about 5gb of data in it for the past week or so and according to auslogics disk defrag its 88% fragmented - and it doesn't change after you've defraged it

Thanks.

 

[slipd]

What are you trying to defrag? The physical drive with the container file on it, or the actual container volume itself?

If the former, it's probably not being defragged because most defraggers won't bother defragging a file where the fragments are bigger than a certain size (commonly 64MB).

If the latter, then it's pointless to defrag because the sectors in the volume won't correspond with physical sectors on the disk.

I'm just trying to defrag the drive that the container is on - it doesn't seem possible though? I shouldn't notice any performance decrease because of it should I

 

[slipd]

I don't have truecrypt running when I do a defrag. Like you say, maybe its my choice of defragger that's the issue? I'll try a different one

Thanks.