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From: klute%trillian.irb@unido.uucp (Rainer Klute)
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Subject: Re: Hard drive defragger
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Date: 7 Sep 89 08:30:34 GMT
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In article <685@opal.tubopal.UUCP> alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera) writes:
>  Try REORG/DL_II by Simon Poole (PD). Seems to work really great.
>  I have had no problems yet. But you should backup your HD before using ANY
>defragging program. Think about power fails :-)

Not only power fails may cause trouble. I have used REORG
several times successfully *until* it obviously ran into an
endless loop. (There is a bar showing how much of the harddisk
partition has already been defragged, and this bar exceeded its
rightmost limitation.) The partition was trashed. I don't use
REORG since then.

I also noticed problems with DLII when de-erasing files on a
harddisk. Often the directory gets disturbed: Several file
entries are duplicated, others are missing. - The only thing I
use DLII for is *looking* at disk sectors (but better not try
to *write* to them).

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