Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sunybcs!ugfailau
From: ugfailau@sunybcs.uucp (Fai Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 20 Meg versus 40 Meg
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Date: 18 Feb 88 11:00:28 GMT
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In article <2276@cognos.UUCP> brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell) writes:
>
>Having two drives does have its advantages.  Any programs (or data)
>that doesn't change, shrink or grow, can remain on one drive, while
>everything else remains on the other.  This affects program startup
>time mostly, but can also improve performance on programs which access
>files on the drive which doesn't get fragmented.
>
	But if you partition the disk into 2 200meg virtual disk
you accomplish the same thing. HOWEVER, I don't know of any
unfragmentation program that works on _part_ of a disk, be
it a virtual drive or selected tracks.
	Does anyone know? My hard disk has about 60% stationary
data and mace does the same sh*t everytime....

Fai Lau
SUNY at Buffalo (The Arctic Wonderland)
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