Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:55:01 -0700
From:	"Alan S." <as173 AT cornell DOT edu>
Subject:	looking for defrag from a stand-alone command prompt with lfn & FAT32
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On my Windows PC, I also have a bootable 'maintenance partition' from
which I run PowerQuest's PartitionMagic and DriveImage (PQDI) using
copies of the two products' rescue disks.  The only part of Windows on
the partition is the three Win98SE system boot files [SYS'd from a
Win98SE recovery floppy]; there is NO Windows GUI or GUI support files.

I keep DriveImage recovery files on an 8000MB FAT32 partition.  The PQDI
files have 'DOS' (8.3) short filenames, but I also sometimes store other
large and rarely used files which may have long filenames on that drive.

It's not convenient to make the recovery partition visible to a full
Windows (GUI) environment just to use the Windows defrag program.  So I
would like to defrag the partition from the [stand-alone] MS-DOS 8
command prompt.  Because of possible long filenames, I can't use
SPEEDDISK from Norton Utilities 8 for DOS (although there is a *remote*
possibility I may be able to use the long filename enabled version of
SPEEDDISK for DOS -- named SDEFRAG -- that is part of Stacker 4.1 for
DOS/Win3x/Win95, which I already own -- if I can somehow circumvent the
requirement to stac the partition!).

So I'm looking for a basic defrag program which can run from a MS-DOS 8
command prompt; it must work with long filenames and FAT32. 
Suggestions?

Thanks,
Alan S.
9/27/2001

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