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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Optimizing a hard disk layout
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Date: 3 May 89 13:49:56 GMT
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a colleague here was showing me some stuff on an IBM PC and he happened to be
showing me some of the Norton Utilities package.  One program in that package
is a hard disk optimizer that looked quite neat: what it did was treated the
hard disk as a gigantic "sliding block puzzle" in an attempt to 
  (a) get all of the files written out using near-contiguous blocks, and
  (b) get all the free space collected in one place.
Is there a utility like that for the Amiga?

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