Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!jade!eris!spencer From: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: FillDisk Message-ID: <6098@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 14:44:10 EST Article-I.D.: jade.6098 Posted: Mon Nov 30 14:44:10 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 05:33:46 EST Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: spencer@eris () Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 I have started something new in the way of Hard Disk management. For those who fear using Disk Doctor on their hard disk, take a look at Fill Disk by FNF on one of the Fish Disks. It writes a file to the disk until the disk is full. This means that Disk Doctor will no longer recover bits and pieces of deleted files. I had a directory loop in my Commodities directory the other day. I ran Fill Disk until all free blocks were filled. I deleted the file it created, made a new file of the same name so that will wouldn't return, and then I ran disk doctor. 15 minutes later... I had a working hard disk... or more to the point, I had a validating hard disk, and when that was done (20 minutes later), Then I had a working hard disk. Just a word of advice. Maybe I should send it in and get my AmigaWorld Tee Shirt. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)222-7595 spencer@mica.berkeley.edu I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)222-9416 ..ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e AAA-WH1M -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-