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Defragementation tool for FAT filesystem
Name: Richard Date: December 22, 2001 at 02:40:00 Pacific
Comment:
Are there any sharware/free degragmenation tools for OS/2 using the FAT filesystem?
Name: Æ Date: December 22, 2001 at 11:19:37 Pacific
Reply:
I think Graham Utilities? Or FATOPT.exe from FM/2 (File Manager) Utilities. Why would you use FAT anyway? HPFS is the native OS/2 file system, it works so much better. Really!
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Response Number 2
Name: Mark p Date: December 24, 2001 at 10:24:38 Pacific
Reply:
That certainly is a matter of opion. Yes it may be less prone to fragmentation but for some reason OS 2 seems to load quicker and have less disk thrashing on FAT16 than on HPFS. At least thats what I've found on my last OS2 install(accidently did an easy install). Still testing though. And FAT16 is read by most other OSs as well.
Merry Christmas.
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Response Number 3
Name: armin Date: January 29, 2002 at 08:20:20 Pacific
Reply:
Mark, your findings about boot-speed and thrashing indicate a memory bottleneck. Since HPFS is an installable file system driver it needs additional memory for the driver itself plus up to 2 MB for cache. So, due to the increased memory demands of the (additional) HPFS file system, more memory paging to and from disk will happen at boot time in a system with very little memory (below 8 MB) On a "plain vanilla" installation, the size of the page file \os2\system\swapper.dat is an indication of the overall memory situation: If there is enough memory in the system for the base system and you did not set any special paramters on the hpfs.ifs line in config.sys, swapper.dat will not grow beyond 2 MB.
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