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From: jdc@rama.UUCP (James D. Cronin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Disk fragmentation
Message-ID: <10533@rama.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 89 20:37:18 GMT
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Organization: Scientific Calculations, Fishers, NY
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I have had a hard drive on my Amiga for about 1 year.  During that
time countless files have been created/modified/deleted.  Should I
start worrying about disk fragmentation?  Is there any way to measure
and/or correct it?  Are there performance penalties?  It seems as
though things will slow down when files are split up into small chunks
scattered around the disk (as opposed to one contiguous chunk).

Any suggestions or pointers are most welcome.  My concern is based on
VAX/VMS experience, but I really don't know too much about AmigaDos
internals.

Thanks in advance,
Jim Cronin

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James D. Cronin           UUCP:  {...}!rochester!tropix!rama!jdc
Scientific Calculations/Harris