Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!umn-d-ub!nic.MR.NET!hal!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu!pgn From: pgn@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Paul G. Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: DiskExpress Version 1.5 Keywords: DiskExpress Message-ID: <1073@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> Date: 18 Nov 88 19:46:33 GMT References: <1746@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <88Nov16.150749est.9522@neat.ai.toronto.edu> <1066@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <3fb8bb6c.129dc@blue.engin.umich.edu> Reply-To: pgn@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Paul G. Nevai) Organization: Mathematical Sciences Computer Lab, Columbus, OH Lines: 28 In article <3fb8bb6c.129dc@blue.engin.umich.edu> billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger) writes: >In article <1066@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> pgn@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Paul G. Nevai) writes: >> >> >>I got my DiskExpress 1.5 yesterday. I unfragmented my harddisk with priori- >>tize files option on. On a Mac II it took 27 minutes to move 292MEGs. Wow!!! >>I am impressed. The last time I did this operation it was on a MacPlus with >>20Megs. It used to take an entire night. > >Problem is, it only moves files instead of putting all the free space at the >end. So you have a lot of small free areas on your hard drive instead of one >big one. The practical upshot is that yur hard-drive will refragment itself >faster this time than the last, until you do the slow, full optimization. You are wrong, I didn't use the option where it only moves files. C'mon I wasn't born yesterday. I defragmented the entire disk and all free space was placed to t the end in 27 minutes (292Megs). At the end I check the disk directory map using DisExpress, Symantec Tools and CMS Utils, all three showed that all files were moved mover to the beginning of the directory. Paul Nevai pgn@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu Department of Mathematics TS1171@ohstvma.BITNET The Ohio State University 73057,172.Compu$erve 231 West Eighteenth Avenue 1-(614)-292-5310.office Columbus, OH 43210, U.S.A. 1-(614)-292-4975.department