| Subject | : | Disk Defragger for HPFS for OS/2? |
| Author | : | BigWarpGuy |
| Date | : | 01 Jun, 2001 on 20:41 |
| Is there a disk defragger for HPFS for OS/2? I had one that was a 'command line' defragger but it was not great. Is there one that can work from the presentation manager?
OS/2 Warp-ed to the very end. |
| Subject | : | Re:Disk Defragger for HPFS for OS/2? |
| Author | : | Christian Hennecke |
| Date | : | 18 Aug, 2001 on 22:44 |
| Do you really need that? In the rare cases that HPFS suffers from fragmentation the best way to get around it is to make a backup of the partition, format the partition and restore the backup. A HPFS defragger does the same, but is much slower. |
| Subject | : | Re:Disk Defragger for HPFS for OS/2? |
| Author | : | Kim |
| Date | : | 20 Aug, 2001 on 00:03 |
| Well, a tool to mentioned is always The GammaTech Utilities that includes following: Information - The documentation file. I think above software is still available, but it is payware, ie not shareware or any kind of free software //Kim |
| Subject | : | Re:Disk Defragger for HPFS for OS/2? |
| Author | : | pipes |
| Date | : | 20 Aug, 2001 on 17:24 |
| My understanding of HPFS is that it starts writing data out in the middle of the drive and works its way out.. thus no real need for a defragger, because the likelihood of the hard drive heads will be at any place at any time, most likely the center. In my years of using OS/2, since v2.0, I've never needed a defragger. -Peter |
| Subject | : | Re:Disk Defragger for HPFS for OS/2? |
| Author | : | Kim |
| Date | : | 21 Aug, 2001 on 09:08 |
| Well, I can admit the I actually never have had any use for a defragger for OS2. But, there are tools available for both hpfs and fat drivers under OS2. I recently re-formated my disk, but otherwise it would be of interest to check how the condition of the disk would have been and check it out some defragger program. //Kim |
| Subject | : | Re:Disk Defragger for HPFS for OS/2? |
| Author | : | jep j-erik.p@telia.com |
| Date | : | 14 Jan, 2003 on 21:40 |
| I've used the tools in Graham utilities even though most of them are "command line". They're great and have saved me a lot of headache and money. The defragment tool (and some other tools too) runs fast if it's hidden or as fullscreen. I usually download large files with AWGet that I have to resume, day after day. That means that the files get chopped up in smaller pieces that HPFS-defrag can put together to one continous file that's faster for WarpVision or app xyz to read. So a defragment toll can be of some help, but hpfs-ud (undelete) is the most useful and powerful app in the collection. Med vänlig hälsning / Mit freundliche Grüße / Best Regards //Jan-Erik |
| Subject | : | Re:Disk Defragger for HPFS for OS/2? |
| Author | : | cyber manic cynic@ptt.yu |
| Date | : | 17 May, 2006 on 14:18 |
AFAIK using Warp and HPFS (HPFS386 too) there is no need to defragment files and also there is no way to do this. |
| Subject | : | Gamma Tech Defragger? |
| Author | : | BigWarpGuy |
| Date | : | 17 May, 2006 on 22:29 |
| I think Gamma Tech has a defragger. Would it work with eCS 1.1?
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| Subject | : | Re:Gamma Tech Defragger? |
| Author | : | cyber manic cynic@ptt.yu |
| Date | : | 18 May, 2006 on 07:55 |
I wasn't try this one, but I do not beleive that is different from HPFSopt or HPFSdefrag. I do not own eCS too, but as this is more HPFS related than wich Warp version related, I beleive that will work without any problems. |
| Subject | : | Re:Gamma Tech Defragger? |
| Author | : | Sander |
| Date | : | 19 May, 2006 on 20:07 |
GammaTech's defragger (HPFS Opt) is the fastest I have used. In fact, compared to Graham Utilities defragger (the other commercial defragger), it is MUCH faster in my experience.
Of course it does. eCS 1.1 *IS* OS/2. There is nothing unique about eCS's implementation of HPFS. |