Re: HFS Utils?

[pubpc1@library.ucla.edu]

spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>In article pubpc1@library.ucla.edu writes...
>>spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>>>    Yes, at present there are no utilities whatsoever for working 
>>>with HFS on the Apple IIgs. This means you cannot repair or even
>>>optimize volumes, not too mention there is no way to 'undelete'
>> ^^^^^^^^
>> 
>>There may be no utilities, but if you want to optimize, just copy
>>your files to another HFS volume, erase your original HFS one, and
>>copy the files back.  :)
>
>    True, but considering how flaky the HFS.FST has proven to be,
>I would be concerned about files or directories becoming corrupted
>during this "optimizing" by copying files around. Besides which,
>you need to have an equal or greater sized HFS partition sitting
>empty to do this. :)

My HFS volumes are relatively small--below the "critical" size that
the bug affected.  The small size lets me have an empty partition,
but it is tempting to dump things in it.  :)

Surprisingly, there's been no errors.  Could it be that the errors
are actually being avoided by keeping adjacent all the blocks of
each file?

-Scott G.