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Date:      Mon, 3 Nov 1997 13:39:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com>
Cc:        questions freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: making partition on NT machine
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971103133825.26026D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971101221257.1487A-100000@barnowl>

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On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, John Kenagy wrote:

> I'm ready to start on my last machine and dump DozerNT.
> Problem is I still need a small part of the disk to run an
> Italian cooking CD. In running defrag (its still a FAT disk) there
> is this whacking great gob of blocks that are indicated as 
> "unmoveable"!? They are in the _middle_ of the disk, and of course
> in the way. Its only a 512KB disk.
> 
> Anyone know of a way around this? Short of getting another drive?

What defrag labels as `unmovable' files are those with any bits set other
than Archive, ie. Read-oonly, System, and Hidden.  Look at the numovalbe
fiels and clear their bits.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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