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From: poole@chx400.switch.ch (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard drive defragger
Message-ID: <1989Sep8.140415.9270@chx400.switch.ch>
Date: 8 Sep 89 14:04:15 GMT
References: <8909052223.AA16894@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <685@opal.tubopal.UUCP> <1604@laura.UUCP>
Reply-To: poole@chx400.switch.ch (Simon Poole)
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In article <1604@laura.UUCP> klute@trillian.irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) writes:
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>
>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.
........
Besides the whole thing being unsupported, the documentation explictly
states two things:
	1) Make a backup of the harddisk partition you are reorganizing
	2) Run a diskcheck program on the partition BEFORE you run REORG
If don't know of anybody who's had trouble with the program after
following these two rules.

				

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