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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
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Subject: Re: hard disk de-fragmenter
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Date: 8 Jan 90 13:44:45 GMT
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In article <S1CC8HW@drivax.UUCP> liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) writes:
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>It is interesting to pit the various "deframenters" against each other.
...
>I have no recommendations to make because I don't think they are all that
>important (unless your hardrive is a real slug).

Besides speeding up your disk, remember that defraggers make it much easier
to recover from accidental erasures - if a file is contiguous when you
erase it, unerasing it is a breeze.  If it's got fragments all over the place,
you don't have much chance at all, unless your utility stores extra information
the way Norton's Format Recover does.

Duncan Murdoch