Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 13:39:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: ravenpub@southwind.net (Carl D. Cravens) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Error running FIPS, Last cylinder not free... Message-ID: <199602192039.NAA13375@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <dpGKxwIeEr6F086yn@southwind.net> from "Carl D. Cravens" at Feb 19, 96 07:17:33 am
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> 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.
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