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AmiBack Tools and PFS3
« on: October 10, 2006, 01:09:16 PM »
Would AmiBack Tools work with PFS3 on >4Gb HDD? (at least some options like 'antiseptic' that, IIRC, wipes free space)
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Re: AmiBack Tools and PFS3
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2006, 02:03:19 PM »
ah, ok.
Could someone please write a trivial program that would make file full of zeros to fill HDD?
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Re: AmiBack Tools and PFS3
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2006, 04:59:33 PM »
thanks, your program is quite fast, it made 1Gb file in a matter of few minutes. But there is a small problem, PFS has 2Gb max filesize limitation, so ideally I'd need program that would:
1) find amount of free space on partition
2) fill it with temp directory full of 2Gb pieces..



..argh, no, put down the chair.. :egad:




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Re: AmiBack Tools and PFS3
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2006, 07:38:44 PM »
great, thank you very much both.  :-)
I don't want to format the drive, I just need it as clean as possible to be able to easily restore important (not deleted) files in case of failure. I remember using Deksid or similar tools on diskettes, salvaging files is always a nightmare especially if disk was defragmented.
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