WinME Defrag blew up QNXRTP

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Hi Junta (the public)

I got some new experiences :wink:… one of which was WinME (and supposedly win9x
too) defrag kills qnx rtp installed in a file (the defrag didn’t crashed and
went visibily smoothely).

however win2k defrag works fine (why???)

after defrag from winME when i started qnx it just freezed on
“FS-PKG: Ready to handle requests.”

fortunately i had a recent backup (handy “pax -wvf | gzip > my.tgz”)of
my installed files so i got it re-installed quickly.

So better beware folks!!!

btw will somebody please explain this behaviour… as far as my knowledge of
filesystems tells me even Win2k defrag SHOULD kill qnx rtp installation as
the filesystem headers will get jumbled up so why only WinME blew it up???

Also is there some defrag for qnx… where can i get filesystem structure of
qnx…

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Keep Smiling

Mechanically Yours

  • Mritunjai

Where do you want to be fooled today…

Sophomore Undergraduate
Mechanical Engg.
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
India


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Akhilesh Mritunjai <akhileshmritunjai@rediffmail.com> wrote:

I got some new experiences > :wink:> … one of which was WinME (and supposedly win9x
too) defrag kills qnx rtp installed in a file (the defrag didn’t crashed and
went visibily smoothely).

however win2k defrag works fine (why???)

My understanding is that the rtp image file is marked as a “system” file
and as such should be left alone by the defrag utility. Perhaps the Win2K
defrag is playing by the rules and the ME edition only leaves the the
system files in c:\ alone? Since RTP expects to have a linear chunk of
space on the drive defragging will (can) re-order the blocks on the drive
leaving the filesystem embedded into that file in shambles.

chris

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cdm@qnx.com > “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”

Chris McKillop – Lewis Carroll –
Software Engineer, QSSL
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