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From: ecs165s052@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Greg DeMichillie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: question about disk compaction
Keywords: disk compaction
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Date: 27 May 88 18:16:33 GMT
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In article <2303@spray.CalComp.COM> anson@spray.UUCP (Ed Anson) writes:
>In article <32435@linus.UUCP> brando@linus.UUCP (Thomas J. Brando) writes:
>>     [... question about DiskExpress ...]
 
>Yes, it is about time you compact your disk.
>
>BTW: The whole process requires about 2 hours on a 20MB disk. A full
>backup is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED before beginning, since any interruption of
>the process will leave your disk unreadable.
>

I agree with the good comments about DiskExpress, but 2 hours to complete?
I run DiskExpress on a 40MB drive and it takes no longer than 40 minutes.  The
trick may be that I use this program every week.  The longer you wait, the more
fragmented the disk becomes and the more work the poor program has to go
through.
 
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