Any disk de-fragmenters out there?

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.umd.edu
Thu Nov 30 16:27:59 AEST 1989


In article <2095 at compugen.> john at compugen. (John Beaudin) writes:
>Something along the lines of Raxco's Rabbit, or DiskKeeper, or Squeezpak.
>How about it? There's money to be made here.

No, there is no money to make, except perhaps from suckers.  The 4.2BSD
file system is effectively self-defragmenting.  Files are allocated badly
only when the disk is over-full.  (This is one of two reasons for the
10% free space minimum.)
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