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How to increase available shrink space? Advice needed (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by showthemsnowpity to c/pcmasterrace

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There seems to be plenty of free space on the SSD but there are unmovable files. So I deleted pagefiles etc, which increased available shrink space from 34000ish MB to 79000ish MB before it somehow decreased back to 58459 MB. GParted Live on USB (with laptop safe boot option disabled) did not work, so I am wondering if there's a way to locate and delete the unmovable $DATA file in question. Besides, can y'all recommend some decent software that address this issue please? Thanks in advance :D

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

Defragging is the fix for this, but that's not available on SSDs.

You'd need a dedicated partition management program to work around this issue. There is one major caveat - this could negatively affect the life of the SSD due to something called write amplification.

Personally I would suggest using another disk if you have one available...