root@swatty.UUCP (Larry Krone) (06/13/91)
Is SCO Unix subject to disk fragmentation??? I have some files that are taking abnormally long to get to..... If so, does anybody know of a good disk unfragmenting utility for SCO Unix.... Thanx, Larry Krone root@mus.com
caf@omen.COM (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) (06/15/91)
In article <182@swatty.UUCP> root@mus.com (Larry Krone) writes:
-Is SCO Unix subject to disk fragmentation??? I have some files
-that are taking abnormally long to get to.....
-
-If so, does anybody know of a good disk unfragmenting utility
-for SCO Unix....
If my mbox file is representative, fragmentation isn't too bad.
The file is 3.5 MB and a wc -v on it took 11.36 seconds real
time. That's 315 kcps. A cp to /dev/null takes about 7.56
seconds, for 472 kb/second. This is with a Wren IV, which gets
about 1100 on Coretest. All in all, not bad for a file which
should be about as fragmented as any.
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