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- From: spcberto@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
- Subject: Re: Stacker, Windows, Swapfile, & Defrag
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.231336.26052@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: U of Chicago, SSPPCC
- References: <PHPDPB3w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> <19255@drutx.ATT.COM>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:13:36 GMT
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- In article <19255@drutx.ATT.COM> dfh@dwroll.att.com writes:
- >From article <PHPDPB3w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>, by dszpiro@student.business.uwo.ca (Daniel A. Szpiro):
- >
- >> Stacker's SDEFRAG utility will defragment the stacked drive, but will not
- >> operate on the unstacked portion. Norton's SPEED DISK won't stop with the
- >> small, unstacked portion of my hard drive and is a no-no with Stacker.
- >
- >Are you sure SPEED DISK "won't stop with the small, unstacked portion"?
- >The stacked portion of your hard drive is just one big hidden file on
- >the HOST drive. I always thought that SPEED DISK would not touch hidden
- >files. So you should be able to defrag the HOST drive with SPEED DISK
- >and it will ignore the (large) hidden file that is your stacked drive.
- >
- In SPEEDISK, set STACVOL.DSK as an Unmovable File. Then optimize the
- rest of the unstacked drive. I tried this over the weekend, and it appears
- to have worked without problems.
-
- Bob Osterlund
- berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
- SSPPCC--University of Chicago
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