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From: kleonard@PRC.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard --> kleonard@gvlv2@prc.unisys.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 20 Meg versus 40 Meg
Message-ID: <5539@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>
Date: 19 Feb 88 16:15:25 GMT
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In article <8641@sunybcs.UUCP> ugfailau@joey.UUCP (Fai Lau) writes:
>	But if you partition the disk into 2 20meg 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.

There are at least two programs which WILL defrag a "virtual disk", assuming
that what we really mean is an operating-system partition (as in FDISK)
or (as a FEW controllers do) a controller-defined virtual-addressed below-low-
level partition.

They are:

     VOPT -- by Golden Bow -- see back pages of "PC" and/or "BYTE" and/or etc.

     DOG (Disk OrGanizer) -- by G. Allan (Allen?) Morris -- see you local BBS.

I have successfully used both of them in both of the situations I have
described.

VOPT does a FAST, best-fit cram of whatever and wherever and however is
on the disk.

DOG does a not-extermely fast, nice-default fit or YOUR-OWN-specified fit, cram
of whatever you want to wherever you want in the order you want.

Regardz,
Ken Leonard
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This represents neither my employer's opinion nor my own:  It's just something
I overheard in a low-class bar down by the docks.