dnb@fltk.UUCP (David Buonomo) (03/28/90)
This is a posting for a friend who owns an Amiga 2000 with a 40 Mb hard disk. Please e-mail me and I will pass the information along via sneaker-net: I am interested in information about fragmentation of a hard disk over time. I am not familiar with the Amiga operating system and how well it does disk "house keeping". Is this a problem with hard disks on Amiga machines? If so, can someone reccommend a utility to do the clean-up? I would like to know about commercial packages as no development tools are available on this machine. Also, any utilities that could be used in general to get better performance from the machine/disk without additional hardware (no flames please). They are using Deluxe Paint III. David Buonomo ...!uunet!fltk!dnb
davidw@telxon.UUCP (David Wright) (03/28/90)
In article <412@fltk.UUCP> dnb@fltk.UUCP (David Buonomo) writes: >"house keeping". Is this a problem with hard disks on Amiga machines? If >so, can someone reccommend a utility to do the clean-up? I would like to This is a problem on any machine with a disk drive. There are several packages available for the Amiga which will try and optimize the files so that they are in contiguous blocks, and at optimal places on the disk. The two I have seen are "TuneUp" which comes with the "Disk Mechanic" utility disk, and B.A.D. Either one of these should do the job, assuming you have enough memory for the cache. TuneUp will let you set the cache size, but if you have it too low, it will take years to complete. It also has a cancel gadget, which you should be sure and NEVER EVER use. Guaranteed HD corruption... -- Telxon: x4350 | davewt@NCoast.ORG | Programs Plus presents: uunet!telxon!davidw | uunet!hal!ncoast!davewt | CoreWar, CRobots, Empire telxon!tts1!davidw | uunet!cwjcc!ncoast!davewt | DeVo "If ya aint got multitasking, ya aint got anything" oVeD