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From: vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Disk fragmentation problem
Message-ID: <1776@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 89 02:02:55 GMT
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Reply-To: vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
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I have kind of a fundamental question about the efficiency of any kind
of disk organizer.  I do a full disk backup about once a month, and
while I'm at it, I find it very convenient to do a simple high-level
format and restore right then.  I feel much more confident about
creeping errors on the disk, and especially after running Norton's Speed
Disk once and letting it run for hours, and finding garbled directory
entries, I wouldn't think of doing anything else.  I know this doesn't
do the kinds of optimization like putting .coms and .exes near the
front, etc., but aren't those relatively little gain for a lot of pain?


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| Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large
| Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton, vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
V All the world is biscuit shaped. . .