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From: macq@miguel.llnl.gov (Don MacQueen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Disk optimization
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Date: 20 Sep 90 23:30:33 GMT
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Adds and documentation for disk optimization software (defragmenting,
etc) speak as if the best thing to do is first defragment and then
'optimize' which means put all the files together and all the free space
together each in one big block.  But if this is done then the next time
a file is made bigger it is necessarily fragmented.  Wouldn't it be
better to take the free space and divide it up proportionally to the
file sizes and stick a bit of free space after each file?  Then files
would have a better chance of not becoming fragmented.

Any comments?

Don MacQueen
macq@miguel.llnl.gov