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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't move clusters....
Date: 27 Jul 1996 16:22:53 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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In article <31FA7030.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>K-MaC wrote:
>> program effectively.  Apparently, there is some un-
>> moveable clusters on my drive, right near the end
>> of the partition (it only has the MSDOS partition).
>> Is this from Win95?  How can I get some free space?

>You reinstall Win95 - that's the only way.

Actually, you can try booting in safe mode, and defragging there; it
seems to use less unmoveable clusters then.  Or, get Norton Utilities
for Win95; the Speed Disk utility will even optimize your swap file,
so all unmoveable clusters should be moved.  If all this fails, you
could always attrib -r -h -s everything on your drive, defrag, and see
if anything breaks (no big deal, it's only Win95... ;))

rone
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