| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 9 Jul 2001 at 10:43:02 |
| Subject: | Re: ReOrg/PFS3 |
Alan Buxey said,
> hi,
>> All this talk about defragging a PFS3 partition: somewhere along the line I
>> had gotten the impression that the way PFS works, a fragmented partition was
>> not a major problem ie. wouldn't happen very much, or would sort itself
>> out...
> you very very rarely need to defrag a PFS partition....but some people
> whove got too used to FFS think you do.
you can fragment a PFS3 partition, if you fill it up. If there isn't
sufficient contiguous free space to save a new copy of a file, it will
be fragmented whatever filesystem you use.
>> Obviously not, if someone's bothered to write a programme, but is there any
>> truth in what I had thought?
> you dont even need a special defragger....you just move files off the disk
> then put them back on..... so a simple copy script would do the
> job...safer ;-)
That's what PFS-Defrag does. But first it runs Diskvalid to determine
which files are fragmented and need to be copied. It also preserves all
protection bits, which a normal copy operation doesn't.
Cheers
Neil
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