Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:18:05 -0700 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: Mark Barbisan <barbisan@interlog.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FIPS Message-ID: <199808170518.WAA17340@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96r.980817002255.11581B-100000@shell1.interlog. com>
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At 12:33 AM 8/17/98 -0400, you wrote: >So I decided to disable the Virtual memory, I ran DEFRAG again. It still >would only give me a max of 15.8MB. So I rebooted (put back the Virtual >memory and such) and ran DEFRAG just to see what the drive looks like. It >seems that there is some "Data that will not be moved" (As the Microsoft >Defrag legend puts it) near the end of the drive (I assume probably at the >1013 cylinder). Defrag won't move files that are have the system, hidden, and maybe the readonly attributes set. Doing a dir /ah /s, dir /as /s, or dir /ar /s will list all the files with those attributes. Then you can remove the attributes, defrag, and re-set them. This may break some older copy-protection schemes (I happen to know of one that actually does track the cluster a file occupies), but since you already have FAT32, you probably don't have that problem (meaning FAT32 would break them anyways). >Is there any way to get around this with FIPS, or any other program >(Partition Magic)? Are there any programs that can identify certain those >sectors so I can delete them? I would like to avoid reformatting the drive, >but I will if I have to. Remove the attribs, defrag, re-set attribs, do FIPS. --Ludwig Pummer ludwigp@bigfoot.com ludwigp@chipweb.ml.org ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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