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Re: Disk Defragmenter

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From: Duane Clark
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.
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