Quoting SDI " Semiconductor Instruments\ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > So I duely ran noton and defragged, which put all the stuff in the first > 10% of the disk. > But, looking on the map , the last sector had hidden files on it. > So I turned on visualization in Win 98ofhidden file types.and system > files- a total of 7 megs ! > > I realize that I can change all the file attributes somehow (I've yet to > find the command under dos ), and then re-defrag , then re-attribute the > files asa before. > > But it strikes me the more intelligent way to do things would be to > discover from the fat or somehow else the ids of the files in the last > sector. > > Is there no way of doing this ?? > How can you read the fat ?
When I did this for my first Debian system on a W95 computer, I just used the ATTRIB *.* command to find the names of the files that were RSH. Then I did ATTRIB -r -s -h FILENAME and copied them, deleted the original, renamed the copy and put +r +s +h back. (The copies landed just after the freshly defragged files.) I think I checked that I hit the right files by just trying FIPS until it didn't complain. There were very few of them. BTW I had probably turned off any swapfile before I started. I would imagine that moving an active swapfile would be very dangerous as this is one case where absolute disk addresses are likely to be used. (LILO's /boot is another.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
