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From: dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 20 Meg versus 40 Meg
Message-ID: <567@slvblc.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 88 00:25:08 GMT
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In article <8641@sunybcs.UUCP> ugfailau@sunybcs.uucp (Fai Lau) writes:
> My hard disk has about 60% stationary data and mace does the same
> sh*t everytime....

Mark your "stationary data" read-only and Mace will try to collect it all
toward the physical beginning of the disk.  The theory behind this is that
subsequent defrag' operations will go over this area relatively quickly 
since it should not have become fragmented.

Dick

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