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From: cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: File system defragmenter needed
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Date: 24 Aug 89 02:54:37 GMT
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In article <310@kurz-ai.UUCP> simcha@kurz-ai.UUCP (Simcha Lerner) writes:
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>I am desperately seeking sources for a program to defragment my hard disk.

On some systems, such as SCO Xenix, an approach such as the following
has the effect of defragmenting file systems.

(a)	backup up the file system you want to defragment (or at least
major directory trees in that system);

(b) verify the backup;

(c) remove the backed up files;

(d) fsck -s

(e) restore from the back up.