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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Any disk de-fragmenters out there?
Message-ID: <21020@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 89 05:27:59 GMT
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In article <2095@compugen.> john@compugen. (John Beaudin) writes:
>Something along the lines of Raxco's Rabbit, or DiskKeeper, or Squeezpak.
>How about it? There's money to be made here.

No, there is no money to make, except perhaps from suckers.  The 4.2BSD
file system is effectively self-defragmenting.  Files are allocated badly
only when the disk is over-full.  (This is one of two reasons for the
10% free space minimum.)
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