[Freedos-devel] Fwd: freedos defrag methods

2008-03-18 Thread Imre Leber
Here is the explanation: The old methods start by going through the disk from start to finish. For every cluster it determines which file it has to put there. The file that is in the way is moved to a different location and the file that should be there is put in that location. This is very

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: freedos defrag methods

2008-03-18 Thread iw2evk
I'm tried to defragment my 10Gb hdd fat32 .I choose quick try. terminate the working the disk map appears not fragmented. I quit and exit, then restarting defrag: the map it's the same as before quick try. Why? Imre Leber wrote: Here is the explanation: The old methods start by going

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: freedos defrag methods

2008-03-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! I tried to defragment my 10Gb fat32 hdd. I choose quick try. terminates: the working the disk map appears not fragmented. I quit and exit, then restarting defrag: the map is the same as before quick try. Because quick try only takes care that each file consists of only ONE area on the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: freedos defrag methods

2008-03-18 Thread Imre Leber
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Eric Auer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag, maart 18, 2008 01:54 PM Aan: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: freedos defrag methods Hi! I tried to defragment my 10Gb fat32 hdd. I choose quick try.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: freedos defrag methods (OT)

2008-03-18 Thread Imre Leber
For this it is very sad that FreeDOS does not use the LEAN file system (http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/doc/lean.html) instead. That has back pointers for pretty much everything and would as a consequence be much faster. Voting for a file system change ;-D Imre - Oorspronkelijk bericht

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: freedos defrag methods

2008-03-18 Thread Imre Leber
Maybe with adding compression it could make a replacement for doublespace? (running it through the network redirector obviously) Imre - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Imre Leber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag, maart 18, 2008 07:10 PM Aan:

[Freedos-devel] Bulgarian keyboard driver for Blocek

2008-03-18 Thread Ladislav Lacina
Dimitar Mitov kindly provided the bulgarian keyboard driver for text editor Blocek. The archives and webpage are updated. http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bulgarian keyboard driver for Blocek

2008-03-18 Thread Jim Hall
On 3/18/08, Ladislav Lacina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dimitar Mitov kindly provided the bulgarian keyboard driver for text editor Blocek. The archives and webpage are updated. http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz I mirrored this to the ibiblio archive. However, I noticed that the binary rar file

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: freedos defrag methods (OT)

2008-03-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! For this it is very sad that FreeDOS does not use the LEAN file system (http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/doc/lean.html) instead. That has back pointers for pretty much everything and would as a consequence be much faster. A lean ad ;-). But you can just as well build data structures

[Freedos-devel] compressed FAT filesystems (was: defrag methods)

2008-03-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Maybe with adding compression it could make a replacement for doublespace? (running it through the network redirector obviously) Nope, doublespace compresses the actual data on your disk, not the space which is free anyway ;-). I think it would be nice to have a driver for one of those