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List:       caldera-users
Subject:    Re: non-movable files?
From:       "Joseph Red" <jred () pobox ! com>
Date:       1999-06-30 18:58:42
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Hmmm.  My win95b will let me choose the drive I want it on, but not the
location on the specified drive.  It'll also let me choose the min & max
size, or disable it altogether.  Now, if I start disk defrag, and note the
blocks it says are nonmovable, and view the blocks using a disk editor, most
of those blocks belong to the swap file.  I'm not trying to be
argumentative, but I've checked this more than once, when I had the same
questions the original poster had.  However, other than the method I used
(see above) I have nothing more constructive to add, and feel perfectly
comfortable agreeing to disagree.  Unless someone can show me where I'm
wrong.  I also have no problem admitting when I'm wrong (which is entirely
too often for my taste).
Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: paul grasso <dcgrasso@erols.com>
To: users@lists.calderasystems.com <users@lists.calderasystems.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: non-movable files?


>95 can defrag the swap file.  You can also put it (swap file) any place you
want,
>or remove if you have a lot of RAM.  It seems to run faster on the boot
drive
>however.  Other defrag applications are much faster then 95s however.
>
>Joseph Red wrote:
>
>> The main reason some files can't be moved is that they're in use (the
swap
>> file, for instance.)  Once upon a time, Norton's defrag, and I think Nuts
&
>> Bolts, could both do a complete defrag, even placing the swap at the
>> beginning, end or middle of the drive.  So it's possible, I guess MS just
>> didn't want to spend the time coding it:)
>> Joe
>>


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