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From: carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
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Subject: Re: Disk fragmentation and tape handling
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Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 04:59:07 EDT
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 >      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?

There are a number of them.  How important they are depends strongly on
how fragmented your disk is: if you made a copy of your system on an RMO3
with little fragmentation when you installed VMS 4.5, you don't have to
worry about defragmenting it (since there isn't enough extra space to get
fragmented);  if you've got a user disk that has ancient files removed
regularly and that tends to be fully utilized and to have some large files
on it, defragmentation can make the disk work A LOT better. To defragment
the disk using only VMS, you do an image backup and restore of the disk.