[Info-vax] VMS defragmenters

[Bob Koehler]

In article <b1d0cb7e-8f5e-4714-aec4-28eef17346f7 at p4g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, sapienzaf <sapienza at noesys.com> writes:
> 
> You don't want to find out.  Consider the EFI partition on an IA64
> version of OpenVMS, and what would happen if DFO (or some other defrag
> tool) tried to move it.
> 
> The short answer is not to run DFO on a boot disk.  This way the
> system doesn't need to be shut down in order to do the /NOMOVE stuff,
> and you don't risk screwing up system files.

   I defrag my system disk just as often as any other disk.  It's
   perfectly safe unless you overcome VMS' built insetting of NOMOVE
   on critical files.