Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!vtserf!morpheus!frank From: frank@morpheus.UUCP (Frank McPherson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Need help with FastDiskII problem Message-ID: Date: 23 Apr 91 14:44:04 GMT References: <1991Apr16.134655.1565@dayton.saic.com> Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute Lines: 34 In article holgerl@amiux.UUCP (Holger Lubitz) writes: >>Do any of these programs work on FastFileSystem formatted devices? I'm >>interested in optimizing my hard drive partitions. > >The current version (1.8) of FastDisk does not. >However, there is a very good commercial package called THI-Tools, which >contains a great optimizer for FFS-Devices called SpeedDisk. Unfortunately >you have to buy the whole package to get it. (Though you also get a backup >program, a benchmark program, a file manager and some other goodies if >you do so) > >If you don't want to spend your bucks on a commercial program like this one, >there is still a cheap way to do it: Simply backup the partition you want >to optimize, format it, and restore all the files again. Your partition is >well optimized again after that. > -- Thanks for the information. I'll stick to the last method for now, since I've got to spend my software money on things I can't do any other way. I've been doing the backup-format-restore method for some time now; it works out pretty well, especially since I can usually finangle enough free space on one of my partitions to hold the data from the other one if I first do a bit o' compression on the partition used to hold the stuff during the format. It's a bit faster than using floppies. It is, however, a pain, and I'm definitely looking forward to a PD or Shareware utility which would do that. If I could register a shareware product for around $30 or $40, I'd do it. I just don't want to have to pay sixty or seventy dollars for a package I won't use much, such as the THI-Tools you mentioned above. -- Frank McPherson INTERNET : emcphers@fox.cs.vt.edu -- -- AmigaUUCP : uunet!vtserf!morpheus!frank --