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From: jim@jose.uucp (Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: De-fragmentizer non-disaster
Summary: Much better now a days
Keywords: vopt fragmentizer
Message-ID: <1989Sep13.143331.6397@jose.uucp>
Date: 13 Sep 89 14:33:31 GMT
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Organization: Price Savers, Salt Lake City, UT
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Gerry Swetsky writes:
> 
> Maybe I've not kept touch with de-fragmentizer technology.
> 
> The last I remember, if you had a power outage while running such a
> program, you could *definitely* kiss your data good-bye.
> 
><lots of stuff deleted> was de-fraging and power went out
>Thought it was gone forever, but....

Yes, the de-frag programs have improved alot in the last few years.  Most of 
them now (The one you used, Mace, and several others) update the fat after
every move, so that if there is a problem, your disk isn't dead.