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- From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
- Subject: Re: Hard drive defragmenting
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.162246.12651@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
- Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
- Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
- References: <X204KSJ@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <1992Jul21.163135.8338@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> <davis.38.0@chem.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 16:22:46 GMT
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- >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.
-
- Well, it appears there is less of a problem than I suspected. Finally got some
- version info from my friends, and it appers both were using a version that I have
- never seen -- 2.31 I beleive. Someone on the Fido AMIGA echo mentioned they beleive
- it is a hacked version. That would explain a lot.
-
- >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
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Good man! ;-)
-
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