Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!tekcrl!tekgvs!toma
From: toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 20 Meg versus 40 Meg
Message-ID: <3145@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: 22 Feb 88 20:33:51 GMT
References: <950@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <2276@cognos.UUCP> <8641@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.UUCP (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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Summary: Fast Disk Compression Utility

In article <8641@sunybcs.UUCP> ugfailau@joey.UUCP (Fai Lau) writes:
>	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.

Golden Bow's VOpt program only moves files if it will improve performance,
thus if the disk has no fragments and no holes big enough to hold any
files currently more distant then it does nothing!  It is fast enough
that you can put it in your AUTOEXEC.BAT.  It may not do a *perfect* job
of rearranging, but it does 99% of what those slow utilities end up with.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM