Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!hao!boulder!laszlo From: laszlo@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Laszlo Nemeth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: WARNING! FASTBACK may corrupt your hard disk! Keywords: hard disk, lost files, trojan horse Message-ID: <3530@sigi.Colorado.EDU> Date: 17 Dec 87 18:56:56 GMT References: <703@vaxine.UUCP> <3225@bnrmtv.UUCP> <7024@sunybcs.UUCP> <2352@ihlpe.ATT.COM> <2668@masscomp.UUCP> Reply-To: laszlo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Laszlo Nemeth) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 20 >I don't understand why anyone would want to spend over two hours >running a disk organizer (which has the potential for trashing a disk) >when in under an hour you can get the same results by backing up and >restoring the disk and get a backup copy "for free." > >Alan Groupe how big is your hard disk (mines 20M)? since ms-dos dosn't have job conntrol it is very nice at the end of the day to start up DOG (Disk OrGanizer) and let it run. also it will put all .exe .com files at the outer sectors of the disk allowing faster access to them while putting any file that you change often at an inner sector so it can fragment all it wants. besides which i don't do backups because MY hard disk NEVER crashes :-) Laszlo Nemeth laszlo@boulder.colorado.edu I wish i had some SOAM's and was SOAing I think i will tonight.