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From: milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Compressing unix disks
Message-ID: <1071@ndmath.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 88 17:48:54 GMT
Organization: Math. Dept., Univ. of Notre Dame
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Is anyone aware of any good programs for unfragmenting unix disks?  (collecting
all the files together so they use contiguous blocks).  I am looking for
programs for both BSD and SYSV systems.

Also, does anyone know of a way to get UNIX to allocate a file as contiguous
disk space?  Preferably, using normal user privleges but a scheme requireing
superuser permission would still be useful.

Please reply by mail as I don't get in to read news very often.


Greg Corson
19141 Summers Drive
South Bend, IN 46637
(219) 277-5306 (weekdays till 6 PM eastern)
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