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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (T.W."Tim" Smith, Knowledgian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: streamlining a fragmented HD
Message-ID: <9862@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 14:08:46 GMT
References: <2685@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <2630@utastro.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (T.W."Tim" Smith, Knowledgian)
Organization: Suction and Pressure Lab, California Institute of Lawsonomy
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Keywords: hard disk fragmentation

De-fragmenting utilities make assumptions about how the filesystem stores
blocks on the disk that might not be safe to make.  The only people who
should be writting de-fragmenting utilites are Apple.
-- 
Tim Smith				tim@ism780c.isc.com
"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the
                       kind of person I'm preaching to" -- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs