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- From: Steve Powell <Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Defragmentation software ?
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 96 12:14:45 GMT
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- In article <30FE6D3C.5923@topcity.mn.org> "Michael M. Rye" <1726@topcity.mn.org> writes:
- > Chris J Schnurr wrote:
- > > Hi,
- >
- > > I'm looking for reliable software to defragment my hard disk. I have a 600 Mb
- > > amiga disk which is in need of tidying. Can anyone point me in the right
- > > direction ? Are their any reliable ones on aminet ? Do I have one included
- > > with Workbench 3.0 ? (well, it's worth asking I suppose).
-
- No there isn't, but if Dave had been working for the right (in Commodores'
- eyes) department, we may have had Disksalve as part of the OS.
-
- > I would recommend a program called ReOrg, available on Aminet in the
- > disk/optim directory. Filenames are: "ReOrg3_1.lha" = main program
- > "ReOrg3_11pch.lha" = patch to v3.11
- >
- > It is very reliable and has never cause any problems on my machine. One thing
- > I will say about it is it is a *very big* memory hog. Takes a lotta memory to
- > optimize big disk partions. Takes almost 5 meg RAM to optimize my 400 MB hard
- > drive partitions, leaving a little over 1 Meg RAM for ReOrg's caching.
- > So, you better have a lotta memory in your machine if you only have one partiton
- > on your 600 MB HD.
-
- Rubbish, ReOrg seems to dynamically allocate memory resourses, the more
- you've got the mor it uses and the faster it'll do the job!!!
-
- > * Luke, I'm your father . . . Join the Dark Side, you knob! *
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- love it!
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