Hi guys,

Recently I asked a network administrator about the level of fragmentation on the NTFS-volumes that hold the Oracle datafiles.

His reply was: there is much fragmentation on that volume. He showed me a picture of "Disk Defragmenter" of MS Windows 2000 Advanced Server. That picture showed fragmented areas in red, but the whole picture was red!

Must I be worried about this? Can NTFS-level fragmentation influence the performance of Oracle? (I'm afraid so) Must I defragment regularly?

Hope you guys can shed some light on this issue...

Erik