Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!amgraf!brian386!news
From: news@brian386.UUCP (Wm. Brian McCane)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Disk unfragmentation utility
Message-ID: <420@brian386.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 89 22:33:51 GMT
References: <182@syteke.UUCP> <9078@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: news@brian386.UUCP (Wm. Brian McCane)
Organization: Harmon Electronics, Inc  Grain Valley, MO
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In article <9078@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>In article <182@syteke.UUCP> jim@syteke.UUCP (Jim Sanchez) writes:
>>Now that the world has fsanalyze to see how fragmented their disks
>>are when are we going to see a utility to unfragment them in place.
>
>The author of fsanalyze (sdti!mjy) has been working on such a 
>program.  Last I heard, it was going to be available for sale at 
>reasonable prices.  
>
>An unfragmented disk does make a big difference.
>
Okay, here goes.  This may be old news to everyone or might not, I
dunno.  I modified the fsanalyze sources to unfragment a disk with user
deciding whether it should even attempt a specific file or not.  The
method I used is to run a basically unmodified version of the fsanalyze,
and keep a copy of it's list of fragmented files.  I then at the users
request will create multiple copies of a file on the disk, up to 10, and
then keep the best one.  (Least frags or if tie least distance).  The
program works very well, I think, it doesn't trash my disk (it did once ;-).
It is probably very SYSVish since I have never used BSD.  If anyone
wants a copy, just email and ask, or tell me how/where to post it and I
will.  But be forewarned, it works great for my installation, but I make
no promises.

		brian

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Wm. Brian McCane                    | Life is full of doors that won't open
                                    | when you knock, equally spaced amid
Disclaimer: I don't think they even | those that open when you don't want
            admit I work here.      | them to. - Roger Zelazny "Blood of Amber"