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Subject: Disk fragmentation and tape handling
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Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 14:59:00 EDT
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               State University of New York at Stony Brook
                       Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000

                                          Robert Malouf
                                          RMALOUF@SBCCMAIL.BITNET
                                          Marine Sciences

                                          23-Apr-1987 03:49pm EDT
FROM:  RMALOUF

TO:  Remote Addressee                     ( _INFO-VAX@SRI-KL.ARPA )
CC:  George E. Carroll                    ( GECARROLL )

SUBJECT: Disk fragmentation and tape handling

Hello,

     What are your feelings about the various methods of disk
defragmentation?  How important is it? What are are the public domain and
third party products available to do it?  Can it be done with plain VMS?

     In an unrelated vein, is there any way to record the amount of time a
user has a tape mounted?  VMS seems to just record the number of tape
mounts.  We have tried some schemes that wrote a time stamp to a file
whenever a user ALLOCATEd or DEALLOCATEd the tape drive, but they were very
messy.  Does anyone have any ideas?  Is there a PD (both kinds) solution?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.

                                        Thanks in advance,
                                            Rob Malouf
                                            RMALOUF@SBCCMAIL.BITNET
                                            State University of New York
                                                at Stony Brook