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Sure, use tar or cpio.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 15, 2003 01:26 AM

Do a file-by-file backup of everything on your disk to some other media using tar, wipe the disk clean (preferably by reformatting), restore.

All files will be restored contiguously. This is exactly what we all did until around 1980 or so when on-line defraggers became available.

I've done it too many times to count on PDP-11 and old Unix systems. Takes forever, but it works!

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