How to Use DIRMS

[Popcorned1]

What is Dirms?

Dirms stands for Do It Right Microsoft. Dirms is a command line hard drive defragmenter, it has no bulky gui and runs in the background with no interfence at all. It makes a much better job then any other defragmenter i've seen but so many people have not heard of this. You have now!

Download

You can download dirms here.

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How to Use

Dirms is easier than i thought it would be.

Simply download the exe file and place it into the root of the c:\ drive.

1 : Start - Run - Type "cmd" without quotes.

2 : Now type "cd c:\" That changes our directory to the c drive.

3 : The help file for dirms can be found by typing this command "dirms /?"

4 : To defragment my c drive I would type the following "dirms c -q" Press enter and watch it go.

The -q switch means to move the file fast. Well thats my guide on dirms. Other switches and functions can be found with dirms /? I hope you love the big performance gain at the end, I certainly did!

dirms <drive letter> [DEFRAG, COMPACT, COMFRAG <filename>, MOVE] [-q]
[COMFRAG PARAMS = filename]
[MOVE PARAMS = LCN, DATE]
-q means do it quickly, don't wait until the free space bitmap is updated.

BLUE -  the command	 Black -  the explanation


dirms c -q   :  Do free space evaluation, defragment, and quickly move files to the front of the drive 
dirms c DEFRAG -q : Defragment files only 
dirms c CoMpAcT -q : C ompact only 
dirms c COMFRAG -q : Perform partial compaction (quickly) on all fragmented files 
dirms c COMFRAG c:\filename.exe   : Perform partial compaction on one file 
dirms c move date -q : Move files according to modification dates, and do it quickly
dirms c move lcn : Try to free space at the bottom of the drive (moves files toward the front of the drive)

Edited February 21, 2006 by Popcorned

[BlueMe]

Gonna try this right now, sounds great ! Thanks !

[John Veteran]

There is no way in hell I would trust a random EXE file posted on a public forum to defragment my files. God only knows who wrote it or how much they know about programming, algorithms, file systems, or any other relative topic.

Why is there a "slow mode"? :huh: Every feature or "mode" of any software application has its pros and cons; there must be some pros to this slow mode that the fast mode doesn't have... What are they?

[jake1eye]

This is the VBS script I use to defrg all my hard drives, it uses the built in MS defrag, I have it set to be min

size.

  Const Hidden = 0, Normal = 1, Min = 2, Max =3
  Dim Act : Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
  Dim Fso : Set Fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
  Dim Df : Set Df = Fso.Drives
   For Each strDf in Df
	If strDf.DriveType = 2 Then
	Act.Run("Defrag " & strDf & "\  -F"),Min,True
	End If
   Next

[Popcorned1]

Heres the documentation, It's working with Windows Xp Sp2 and has no issues.

http://www.dirms.com/home/docs/dirms_help.asp