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Article #3025Re: Disk Defragmenter
From: Duane Clark
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:22
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:22
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In article <1992Sep15.060021.5871@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> MuffinHead, smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu writes: >>Chris Christensen (cnc@Apple.COM) wrote: > >>: It seems to me that my hard disk is shrinking in capacity. I wonder if it is >>: getting fragmented. Any good tools for testing for and fixing fragmentation? > >>Have you tried Disk First Aid? It generally recovers a couple hundred K for >>me. > >Disk First Aid doesn't defrag disks. Buy Norton Utilities. Well, first of all, the original post came from cnc@apple.com which I assume indicates an Apple employee. Would they be allowed to buy Symantec products? Anyhow, fragmenting doesn't really shrink disk capacity. Disk FIrst Aid (and Norton) will often recover space on disks from pieces of trash files left laying around on the disk. Among other times, these can occur if a program has created a temporary file and then the system crashes and you hit the reset button. *************************************************** INTHE BEGINNG DYD GODCRE8 HEAVEN PLUS EARTH. THE HLYSPRT CRUZD ONE TOTALEE VOID MONDO DARKNIS. THENN GODSAYD, "LET THERR BELITE." THERE WUZ LITE. THELITE IS CALLED DAY, THEDARK IZZ NIGHTT. GODZRAD. HESED, "XCLNT, FERSUR." DAYONE. Excerted from Genesis, as translated by Daniel Nussbaum using actual California license plates, no plate being used more than once. duane@maddog.jpl.nasa.gov
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!maddog.jpl.nasa.gov!duane From: Duane Clark <duane@maddog.jpl.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: Disk Defragmenter Message-ID: <1992Sep15.142248.6507@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6DB418821014D3A@maddog.jpl.nasa.gov> X-Xxdate: Tue, 15 Sep 92 15:30:16 GMT Sender: news@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: maddog.jpl.nasa.gov Organization: Jet Propulsion Labs X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9 References: <72352@apple.Apple.COM> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:22:48 GMT Lines: 31