On 11/4/18 11:08 PM, Sjouke Burry wrote:

[snip]

IIRC, some early versions of DOS required the executable code files
(IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS) to be contiguous (I think it's so the boot code can
just read multiple sectors into memory).

Bottom line, if someone is trying to free up disk space, the defragger
is the wrong tool for the job.

Not only contiguous, but in a preset location as well.
Which the "sys"command did for you on an empty drive.

For that reason, SYS would fail if there were already files on the disk.
I forgot just when they changed that.

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