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Offline Damion

Re: PFS Defrag
« on: January 25, 2003, 04:42:52 AM »
In order to defragment, it will have to write onto
the disk. It should just copy the files to T: or
somewhere on your ram disk, and then back onto
the volume.
 

Offline Damion

Re: PFS Defrag
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2003, 12:53:17 PM »
You're not doing anything wrong per se, these
things can just be a real pain in the a** sometimes.
;)
Interesting. Hmmmm.....Make sure that your device
names and volume names are different, that can
cause some problems under PFS3 (such as the "please
insert games:" problem at the end of validation).
Also, are you using the regular or direct - scsi
version of PFS3? If you're using the internal IDE
of the A1200, I would reccomend using the direct -
scsi version, especially with a big hard drive. Just
be careful not to accidentally alter any other
paremeters in HD Toolbox while changing filesystems
or you can wipe the partition upon saving (or
changing to something other than PFS will probalby
wipe it as well).

Also, you may have a bad block on the hard drive....
if so, you should be able to map it out to prevent
future errors.

After you get everything sorted out, make sure to
give your PFS3 partitions each a couple of hundred
buffers for the best speed...and also make sure
your filesystem blocksize is 1024k for PFS3, no
more no less...sorry if you already know these
things...:)
 

Offline Damion

Re: PFS Defrag
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2003, 01:02:43 PM »
Yup, I would definately try what blobrana said
first before getting all crazy with it. :)
Especially if it was working well until
recently.