[comp.os.vms] Creating placed files

BARMSTRO@carleton.EDU (Pod Stolom Consulting) (04/29/88)

I am trying to improve the our disk fragmentation problems  We are running
a commercial defragger, which tidies up files nicely, but does not prvent
them from being create in fragments to begin with.  Since our defragger
attempts to concentrate free space at the beginning of the disk (that being
where VMS creates files, by default), I would like to move some of the larger
and more permanent files to the end of the disk.  I can move the INDEXF.SYS
to the end of the disk by initializing it /INDEX=END, but I would also like
to put page, swap, and dump files at the end of their respective disks.
How does one go about positioning a file like this?


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