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From: larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: File system performance
Message-ID: <1990Nov06.120947.13551@nstar.uucp>
Date: 6 Nov 90 12:09:47 GMT
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bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:

>Is there something that can be done "on-line" to de-fragment Unix partitions?
>Or is the best bet to just backup and restore the partition using something

karl@ddsw1 put together a diskpack package a year or so ago - I don't
know if it runs under ESIX - or if it works on the FFS - but in any
case, it's available on nstar.

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