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From: davidw@telxon.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard disk clean-up utility
Keywords: hard disk, optimization, Amiga 2000
Message-ID: <512@telxon.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 90 13:12:28 GMT
References: <412@fltk.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidw@telxon.UUCP (David Wright)
Distribution: usa
Organization: TELXON Corporation, Akron OH
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In article <412@fltk.UUCP> dnb@fltk.UUCP (David Buonomo) writes:
>"house keeping".  Is this a problem with hard disks on Amiga machines?  If
>so, can someone reccommend a utility to do the clean-up?  I would like to

	This is a problem on any machine with a disk drive. There are
several packages available for the Amiga which will try and optimize the
files so that they are in contiguous blocks, and at optimal places on
the disk. The two I have seen are "TuneUp" which comes with the
"Disk Mechanic" utility disk, and B.A.D. Either one of these should
do the job, assuming you have enough memory for the cache. TuneUp will
let you set the cache size, but if you have it too low, it will take
years to complete. It also has a cancel gadget, which you should be sure
and NEVER EVER use. Guaranteed HD corruption...

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