Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!iuvax!maytag!watstat!dmurdoch
From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HD Defragment?
Message-ID: <1090@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 90 18:54:26 GMT
References: <25a48e9f@ralf>
Sender: daemon@maytag.waterloo.edu
Reply-To: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
Lines: 18

In article <25a48e9f@ralf> Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>In article <1640040@hpspcoi.HP.COM>, dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low) wrote:
>}>Hi yall.  Can anyone reccomend a good hard drive file defragmenter?  I just
>}
>}The one that comes with PCTools Deluxe is quite good. In fact PCTools
>}Deluxe is a great package to have period.
>
>Unfortunately, it is also quite slow.  The shareware DOG (available on SIMTEL)
>is twice as fast, and OPTUNE is nearly *four* times as fast.  However, I do
>agree that PC Tools is a great package to have.

DOG and PCTOOLS both claim that the reorganization can be interrupted by
a power failure _at any point_ without disastrous consequences.  Is
OPTUNE so careful?

Which of the three support >32M partitions?

Duncan Murdoch