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resultant non-preallocated vm defragged after host defrag ?

hi,

im running vmware workstation 7.1.4 on win 7 x64

i ran a normal defrag using defraggler, all appeared as would be expected (although nothing is what it appears to be according to Duane Michaels the photographer...)

anyway

then, i defragged a single vmdk file of ~6Gb residing on a standard rotational HDD RAID 0 setup as a 64k chunk sized NTFS 4k cluster partition (a truecrypt hidden partition) using the vmware defragger

the result was a surprise as can be seen from the graph and stats - rather defragmented after the defrag

because after the host/os defrag, there was no defragmentation

i believe the cause could be because at the time, drive free space was ~12%

othwerwise, why ?

which program is 'correct' after these operations ?

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