On Friday 15 February 2008, Dale wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Back in the days when I still used DOS, one certainly wanted to > > defragment periodically. The system became significantly more > > performant for a while. On Linux/Unix, I never bothered. > > > > Uwe > > Yea, I remember those days too. Put the disk and get it started then > wait until it finishes the next day. Sometimes it would take more > time than that. I mean, when you got a puter with 64K of ram and > maybe 200 or 300MBs of hard drive space, well, it takes a while. Oh, > that 4MHz blazingly fast CPU helped a lot too. ;-)
I remember using PCTools for defrag then switching to Norton. Took 2 days on a 20M MFM drive - Norton used a different layout scheme to PCTools and wanted to change *everything* around. Heck, I remember changing the interleaving on that disk from 1 to 3 and getting a massive performance increase... -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
