Re: ProDOS files vs. disk

[rcollins@nyx.cs.du.edu (rcollins)]

ST2975@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU writes:

>I seemed to have noticed that files on my disks aren't exactly
>contiguous.  There seem to be 512 byte 'holes' on the disk that
>separate different files' data.  Is this an optimization of
>ProDOS?  Can I write a disk utility that can move the files'
>data closer together and change the directory structure to reflect
>the change using read_block/write_block and read/write?
>I'm using ProDOS v1.9 currently.  Am I imagining things as usual?

Andy,

Hi!  I believe Prosel does the optmization of data you are speeking of
here.  I'm not aware of any PD/Sharewae utils available to do this though.

Have a happy New Year.
Randy
 
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