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From: davejag@wybbs.UUCP (Dave Jaglowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 20 Meg versus 40 Meg
Message-ID: <284@wybbs.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 20:24:21 GMT
References: <950@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <2276@cognos.UUCP> <8641@sunybcs.UUCP> <3145@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Organization: Consultants Connection, Jenison, MI
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Summary: Compression Utilities

In article <3145@tekgvs.TEK.COM>, toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
> 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,
> Tom Almy
> toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM
I am using PCTOOLS compress with my HD (20Meg) Partitioned into 2 10 Meg Drives.All the utilities that I have used, mainly COMPRESS, work on any virtual (Let's
use the standard terms here: Logical drive, as opposed to physical drive) drive.
They just use the sector maps they have for that drive so (using mine as an
example:)
Tracks 0-306: Partition 1
Tracks 307-613: Partition 2
If you compress partition 2, you will not affect the data on partition 1.
I'm not sure if any utilities CAN bypass this partitioning.
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