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- From: li@oculus.loni.ucla.edu (James Li)
- Subject: Re: A/UX 3.0 partition slower than Mac Partition
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.192011.18816@mic.ucla.edu>
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:20:10 PST
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- In article <1257@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
- >li@oculus.loni.ucla.edu (James Li) writes:
- >
- >>When working from Mac Applications, access to the Mac Partition is several
- >>times faster than a folder/directory under the root (/) partition. Is
- >>this normal, and if so, could someone explain why? Also, is there anything
- >>that can be done to make this faster?
- >
- >Could it be the simple fact that the MacPartition is many times _smaller_
- >than "/"...?
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- I really don't think so because the files I am talking about are about 500K,
- unless there's heavy fragmentation. On that note, is there a unix utility
- I am not aware of that manages fragmentation (equivalent of Norton Speed
- Disk) or is that somehow handled by the OS?
-
- I haven't discounted the simple theory of partition size. I think I can
- simply test the theory by hooking up a SyQuest drive. Now if only I could
- find an available disk around...better yet two. Otherwise, I will have to
- partition it into two and worry about which tracks are inside and which are
- outside.
-
- James
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