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From: woodside@ttidca.TTI.COM (George Woodside)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Defragger wanted (wasRe: 82 track DS/DD drive needed)
Message-ID: <4911@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 89 12:19:00 GMT
References: <8907191857.AA11705@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1074@ultb.UUCP> <323@wet.UUCP> <15830@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: woodside@ttidcb.tti.com (George Woodside)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <15830@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> calengr@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (California Engineer Magazine) writes:
...[edited]...
>Can someone tell me where I can get a copy of a good
>defragger for a floppy?
>
>Thanks
>
>Michael

I don't know of any around, but that may be because you don't need one. Just
copy the files (not the whole disk, the files) to another (empty) floppy, and
they will be made contiguous. If you have a big enough RAMdisk, you can copy
the files to it, delete them from the original floppy, then copy them back.

When you use the desktop (or most utility programs) to copy whole disks, the
structure (and consequent fragmentation) of the disk is maintained. When
you copy the files (or complete folders), the data is accessed as a file,
and read and written back as file-sized entities. If the destination is
blank, the files are written contiguously.



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*George R. Woodside - Citicorp/TTI - Santa Monica, CA 
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