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From: joe@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu (Joseph T. Rohde)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: de-fragmenting with Zoo
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Date: 10 Jul 90 18:23:52 GMT
References: <14236@venera.isi.edu>
Reply-To: joe@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu (Joseph T. Rohde)
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In article <14236@venera.isi.edu> sondeen@isi.edu (Jeff Sondeen) writes:
>This request concerns the relative merit of using defragmenting
>programs compared to just restoring from ZOO or PKZIP backups.  That
...
>c:
>zoo a d:allfiles *.*
>del *.*
>zoo x// d:allfiles

>I've done this and it seems to have defragmented the files, in less than
>the 30 minutes claimed for REFORMAT to run on 32 Megs.   Thanks, /jeff
...
Well for starters, not everyone has 30 Meg free on another
drive.  Also, other defraggers are much much faster only
defragging the file that are not already contiguous and
then bubbling the free space on the disk.  Done once a week
on an average system it only takes about 5 minutes for me.
Joe
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