Re: GS Hard Drive Defrag Program

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Scrounge Weasel writes ...
> 
> That's more along the lines of what I was looking for: an actual
> application!  Now another question.  Would those freak out on a really,
> really big (like, 2 gig) partition?  (I know 2 gig isn't big anymore.  But
> it always will be on a IIgs.)
> 
 ....

     For a 2GB drive, it may a good idea to set up a few moderate size (e.g. 250MB)
HFS partitions and a few 32MB ProDOS partitions and leave the rest of the space in a
single big (relatively high-risk) HFS partition.

     In general, you are unlikely to notice any significant speed improvement via
defragmenting a hard disk on a IIgs unless a partition is pretty well filled and has
gone through many file deletes and writes. (For one thing, IIgs files are not usually
especially huge.) 

     Your best bet for a decent level of defragmenting a partition is probably the
file move, wipe, and move back approach suggested by Yor Name.



Rubywand