From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 12:43:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA21880 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 12:43:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA21875 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 12:43:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA13375; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 13:39:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602192039.NAA13375@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Error running FIPS, Last cylinder not free... To: ravenpub@southwind.net (Carl D. Cravens) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 13:39:47 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Carl D. Cravens" at Feb 19, 96 07:17:33 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Sun, 18 Feb 1996 17:14:04 -0500 in list.freebsd, you wrote: > >I degragged my disk (running Windows 95, it is compressed) and re-booted > >under MS-DOS, hoever FIPS won't run says there is an error the last > >cynlder isn't free, then exits. Any help would be appreciated. > > If Win95 uses the equivalent of DOS 6.xx's DEFRAG, it doesn't like to > move a lot of files... I tried it and it left "locked" files all over > my drive. I guess anything marked as "hidden" counts as a system file. > If Win95's defragger left X's all over your drive map, this might be > your problem. > > Try the shareware ORG... it locks the true system files and gives you > control over which other files you might want to lock. I used ORG, my > defrag went fine, and FIPS ran like a charm. (Nice little toy, that > FIPS.) The locked stuff is the Windows Swap file. You can defrag it as well by disabling swapping during the defarag process. I assume you are running the defrag from the right-button properties panel for the drive instead of from the command line of a DOS window. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.