New Defrag options in Windows 8

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, November 13, 2011

Looks like Windows 8 introduces some additional DEFRAG options.

          **Option**        **Description**        **Option Available**                  **Windows 7**        **Windows 8**                  /A        Perform analysis on the specified volumes        Yes        Yes                  /C        Perform the operation on all volumes        Yes        Yes                  **/D**        **Perform traditional defrag (this is the default)**        No        **Yes**                  /E        Perform the operation on all volumes except those specified        Yes        Yes                  /H        Run the operation at normal priority (default is low)        Yes        Yes                  **/K**        **Perform slab consolidation on the specified volumes**        No        **Yes**                  **/L**        **Perform retrim on the specified volumes**        No        **Yes**                  /M        Run the operation on each volume in parallel in the background        Yes        Yes                  **/O**        **Perform the proper optimization for each media type**        No        **Yes**                  /T        Track an operation already in progress on the specified volume        Yes        Yes                  /U        Print the progress of the operation on the screen        Yes        Yes                  /V        Print verbose output containing the fragmentation statistics        Yes        Yes                  /X        Perform free space consolidation on the specified volumes        Yes        Yes           

There is little information yet about these options but I assume that they might have to do with the rumored new “protogon” file system and that there is more support for SSD included.