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FYI
Note: The origin of this information may be internal or external
to Novell. Novell makes every effort within its means to verirfy
this information. However, the information provided in this
document is FOR YOUR INFORMATION only. Novell makes no explicit
or implied claims to the validity of this information.
TITLE: Optimizing a Server Hard drive
DOCUMENT ID#: FYI.P.6014
DATE: October 29, 1991
PRODUCT: NetWare Lite
PRODUCT VERSION: All versions
SUPERSEDES: NA
SYMPTOM: NA
ISSUE/PROBLEM
Optimizing a Server Hard drive
During the day to day work on your computer, files are deleted,
rewritten, or replaced on the hard disk. This will eventually
cause your files to be "fragmented". Fragmented refers to a file
being divided into pieces and those pieces being located
throughout your hard diskinstead of in one contiguous block of
disk space. Thus if you try and access one of these files the
hard disk has to look for a single file in several places. This
in turn causes your hard disk to respond slowly. The more
fragmented your disk is, the slower it will respond. If the hard
disk is in a NetWare Lite server the entire network can be
affected. To eliminate this effect consider "optimizing" you
hard disk. A disk is optimized by rearranging the data so that
files are not spread out over the disk. There are many different
utilities availible for optimizing hard disks.
Note:
It is vital that no other stations access your hard disk
while the utility is running.
Disk Optimizers can take a considerable amount of time to
complete data arrangement. (20 minutes or more)
It is recommended that you have a backup of your vital
information before optimizing.
If your hard disk is in a NetWare Lite server, the
optimizing utility must be executed from the server itself
and not from a client.