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Subject: Re: Disk status Utilities
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Date: Wed, 20-May-87 10:32:45 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 20 10:32:45 1987
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In article <8705171844.AA16447@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> goertzel@DCA-EMS.ARPA (Herbert Goertzel) writes:
>I have been looking for the ST version of 2 utilities I have gotten used 
>to on my IBM clone at the office.  The first is the disk utilization map
>in Norton Utilities so I can get some idea of how fragmented my Hard Disk
>has become over time and the other is a Shareware program called SST which
>defragments the disk making all files continuous and significantly cutting
>down on read time.  Are there ST routines that provide this functionalty,
>either PD or commercial?  If you know of any, please let me know.
>
>Herb Goertzel

I am currently beta testing a program that will do what you asked.  It is
written by the same author (Dave Clemans) that wrote Backup! from Michtron.
It will show you graphically what blocks are used on any drive for the whole
drive or each file. It will check for unused but marked as used blocks and
try to recover them. It will list the status of files on the drive and tell
you things like if they are fragmented or not. And will de-fragment a drive
of any size.  It's a very nice tool (especially if you run an ST BBS like me.)

I do not know the release date or if it will be distributed through Michtron
or not.  I know that Dave is on the Net and could respond with further
information when possible.

- Russell Schwartz
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