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- From: amah@IASTATE.EDU ()
- Subject: Re: Are there any disk defragmenters that are safe for OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.020236@IASTATE.EDU>
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- Organization: Iowa State University
- References: <1jkms4INNh38@gap.caltech.edu> <1jl6r1INN5lu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:02:36 GMT
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- In article <1jl6r1INN5lu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A.
- Bell) writes:
- >
- > In a previous article, brent@cco.caltech.edu (Brent R. Eubanks) says:
- >
- > >For those unfortunates among us who are still saddled with have to
- > >use DOS once in ahwile (and are therefor stuck with a FAT file system
- > >and dual boot on drive C:), does there exist a program that can
- > >defragment our disk (including the OS/2 system partition?) safely????
- > >
- > >
- > >Thanks
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- > Well, after reading Inside OS/2 and the posts in this group,
- > it seemd that pc tools and optune will mangle extended attributes,
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- Not true. I've been using PCTOOLS (ver. 8) for the past couple of months now.
- I've used it to defragment the DOS partition and never had any problems. Of
- course I never tried to unhide EAs, so they remain fragmented.
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- BTW, I've used it both before and after installing 2.1b.
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- > but norton speed disk is safe.
- >
- > But I'd certainly back up before trying it.
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- Max.
- amah@iastate.edu
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