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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Optimizer for SCO Xenix 2.3.3
Keywords: optimizer
Message-ID: <1243@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 90 02:30:37 GMT
References: <2697670a-50comp.unix.xenix@oneb>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <2697670a-50comp.unix.xenix@oneb> kmcvay@oneb (Ken McVay) writes:
| After enjoying the convenience of Vopt, SD, Compress and similar disk
| optimizing systems, I find the lack of same frustrating for my Xenix 
| system.  

  So run packdisk. It's been posted to the net a number of times. Like
any disk diddler, if the system breaks while you do it, you are in a
(potential) world of trouble.

  I have backed up and packed my news partition from time to time, but
you can get a big improvement by unmounting the filesystem and running
fsck with the -s option. That orders the freelist. Not as good as a
repack, but a lot better than nothing.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me