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Re:Defrag Like It's 1993 by rzzzt on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:35AM (#29622308)
HPFS definitely put the root directory in the "seek center": http://spider.seds.org/spider/OS2/HPFS/dirs.html

This now makes me wonder whether the middle disk block (numerically) is equal "seek times" away from disk edges.

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