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From: wsflinn@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Scott Flinn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard drive defragger
Message-ID: <11431@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 9 Sep 89 04:08:59 GMT
References: <8909052223.AA16894@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <685@opal.tubopal.UUCP> <1604@laura.UUCP>
Reply-To: wsflinn@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Scott Flinn)
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In article <1604@laura.UUCP> klute@trillian.irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) writes:
>
>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 had this problem once.  It seems that it will happen if DLII does
not report that the partition is OK.  You should always check that you
do not have cross-linked clusters or any such thing (if you do, DLII will
fix many of the problems), then REORG should work well.  I have not
had problems using REORG since I began this practice (although I still
do full backups before reorganizing).

Cheers.