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From: ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us (Dave Ihnat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Fast reboot & Disk fragmentation
Summary: Yeh, it works...slowly...
Keywords: Reboot, fsck, disk fragmentation
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.053121.219@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 29 Apr 91 05:31:21 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.140925.10180@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <1991Apr26.043539.17680@chance.UUCP>
Sender: Dave Ihnat
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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The program that you were thinking of is 'packdisk'.  It *does* work--it
defrags a disk or partition fine.  Just, that it's so (justifiably) paranoid
about trashing anything that it's s..l..o..w.. as molasses in January.  But
it does work; and especially on smaller drives, it could well be a big win.
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		Dave Ihnat
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