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From: [e-mail] (Paul Christopher Miranda (I love Cheese))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Idea for a useful utility
Date: 28 Jan 1993 15:42:21 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Dan E Babcock) writes:
>Wouldn't it be nice to be able to create pseudo-partitions on a hard drive
>block of unused space (perhaps after running a defragmenting utility).
>Amax or CrossPC. Has this already been done? Is there something nasty in the
>FFS block allocation strategy that prevents you from getting contiguous
>blocks of reasonable size? Inquiring minds want to know. :)
>Dan

Hmm... there is a disk optimizer/organizer called Reorg that lets you say where
to put the data (ie top/bottom or partition).. if you did this, and then re-
partitioned, taking the new space from the now empty portion, you would not
damage any data.. the disk would probably want to re-validate afterwards, but it
should work don't try this stunt at home kiddos... i think i will do a backup
and try it... if anyone has attempted this.. lemme know so i won't waste time...

BTW.. does anyone know if GNUtar for amy (in the UUCP distribution) preserves
amy file bits? (pure, archived, hidden, etc...)

I'll get back to you when/if the great experiment works...

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