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- Subject: Re: Hard drive defragmenting
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- From: davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis)
- Date: 22 Jul 92 14:26:04 +1200
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- In article <1992Jul21.163135.8338@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:
- >Subject: Re: Hard drive defragmenting
- >From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
- >Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 16:31:35 GMT
-
- >In article <X204KSJ@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> arzheim@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Kai Arzheimer ) writes:
-
- >>Better solution: Try ReOrg (shareware). It does very well (with enough memory)
- >>and can be found e.g. at amiga.physik.unizh.ch (dir should be /amiga/disk or so)
-
- >... and then again.... I've heard a few disquieting reports of ReOrg not doing it's job right --
- >or doing it too good, depending on how one looks at it. Files that were good before
- >ReOrg got them were no longer useable. Even text files have been trashed. I have *not* gotten
- >the particulars on what version (I just checked, I have *two* on my BBS), but as usual it
- >appears caution is the watchword. :-(
-
- >Anyone else hear of this? I've had two verified reports from both No. and SoCal, and the people
- >reporting it included the re-org`ed files and the backups of the originals. The originals were the
- >same size as the reorganized ones, but the ReOrged ones were not useable. This did not happen to
- >all files, but a sufficient number to send off alarm bells.
-
- yes, but can the people involved gaurantee their hard-disk wasn't already
- subtly munged (most commonly two files using the same sectors - a fault
- that things like Qbtools will not pickup , indeed fixdisk is the only
- package I know that checks for that) before they ran ReOrg. ReOrg does
- a fair amount of sanity checking on the disk before starting, but it seems
- to be mainly on the directory structures.
-
- Anyway, I haven't heard of anyone losing data thru ReOrg - though of course
- you should always do a total backup before starting it, and then if you're
- paranoid (I am:-) do a verify of the backup against the disk afterwards just
- to make sure
-
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- | o John Davis - davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz o |
- | o chem194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz o |
- | o John_Davis@equinox.gen.nz o |
- | o (Depart)mental Programmer,Chemistry Department o |
- | o University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand o |
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