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From: exodus@uop.edu (G.Onufer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Beware: Munged HD ahead
Message-ID: <998@uop.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 88 02:18:43 GMT
References: <966@uop.edu> <611@cernvax.UUCP>
Organization: UoP-- Sun Lab Administration
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Summary: For a few purposes it works fine

In article <611@cernvax.UUCP>, jmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg) writes:
> In article <966@uop.edu> exodus@uop.edu (G.Onufer) writes:
> >	-Runs with the Supra Autoboot program, foldrxxx.prg, Beckemeyer's Hd
> >	 accelerator.
> Does this hard Disk accelerator work well? Having, like many people, a
> lot of stuff on the hard disk it gets painful to put new files on it.
> Simon's reorg program helps a bit, but ...
> Also, if good is it part of a wider package or on sale as is?

It helps on reading directories, not on creating or writing ...

My suggestion is:  Do a diskcheck with dlii.  If all is well, write a 
file to that partition which fills up the partition to maybe %5 free.
Run dlii again and reorg.  If that big file was written to the root
directory, it will be fairly close to the beginning of the partition.
Then remove the big file.  All the free space is now at the beginning of
the partition.  

AS ALWAYS:  BACKUP YOUR DISK BEFORE USING A PROGRAM LIKE RE-ORG!!!!!

Disclaimer:  This is my work-around of what Michtron's Tune-up! does.
			 I do not have the money to buy it so I created my own
			 method of doing the same thing.

Greg Onufer
exodus@uop.edu