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"JohnT" <jrt AT inXSformatics DOT net> wrote:
>
> I was browsing around comp.os.msdos.djgpp and found the problem
> of parts of the disk being marked "unmoveable". I'm not sure, but
> think this may be due to DOS sessions running under Windows and
> getting some kind of undocumented crap written to files or clusters
> by Windows. My system had two hard drives for a while, one used
> as backup, and I would get rid of the unmoveable clusters by doing
> a backup, reformat and copying all the files back. The exact flag
> that causes the "unmoveable" designation I don't know about, but
> documented file attributes don't have a bit that means "unmoveable".
> Anyone got a good guess on this?

"Hidden" files and "system" files are considered by defraggers to be
fixed in position so as not to break some programs' copy protection.