[Info-vax] VMS defragmenters

[P. Sture]

In article <rtf3KaRMr8y6 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> 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.

But beware patch kits which may replace those critical files with new 
versions without the NOMOVE attribute set.

-- 
Paul Sture