Xref: utzoo comp.windows.ms:13686 comp.os.msdos.misc:2392 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!sjsca4!poffen From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: unmoveble blocks in Norton Speed disk Message-ID: <1991Jun10.201848.26868@sj.ate.slb.com> Date: 10 Jun 91 20:18:48 GMT References: <10545@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991May28.140354.446@sc2a.unige.ch> <1991May29.003641.3213@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Reply-To: poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger) Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca. Lines: 28 In article campbell@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Trevor George Campbell CC361) writes: >mjf@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Michael J Flory) writes: > > >>As I recall, Norton Speed Disk (quite properly) marks a permanent swapfile >>as unmovable. Unless you have a HUGE swapfile this wouldn't explain why >>almost yr whole disk was unmovable, but it could be part of it. You didn't >>try to run SD WITHIN Windows, did you??? (That could have very undesirable >>results, I understand...) > >From my understanding of the windows manual, windows will only use (at most) >half of the free space on a disk for a permenent swapfile. And further, that >space must be continuous (or is that contiguous) ie: in one huge block, and >not fragmented. I would support the idea of system/hidden files somewhere >on the disk, as the only time i have seen many (ie: more than about 2-3) >unmovable blocks it has been due to system/hidden files. > I don't think so. I have a 320Mb SCSI disk partitioned into many 32Mb ones (So I use DOS 3.3, so sue me :-), with the last being a runt of 20Mb or so. I have` the ENTIRE partition allocated as a permanent swap file. I think that when setting it up, windows SUGGESTS a file size equal to half the current free space, but it doesn't prevent you from entering whatever number you want. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254