From: "E. Moorhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The desire to "DE-FRAGMENT" an OS/X'd Hard Drive, as one would an OS/9, is to be STRONGLY AVOIDED!
Bad advice, IMO. While 10.2 and .3 do some of its own on-the-fly disk optimizations of smaller files, it easily allows HDs with large files to become BADLY fragmented - which greatly reduces their performance.
I'm not one to advocate defragging often. But when you deal with large files, it can be necessary.
At 01:19 PM +0100 11/02/2004, Larry le Mac wrote:
From: Al Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
With any extra disk space, you can copy files from one disk or volume to another. That, in effect, defragments them. Safer than Norton, I think. And if you want to fix any bad blocks, you can reformat your drive(s) beforehand.
Good idea, except most of my 120GB disks are almost full, but I suppose buying one more "maintenance" disk would solve that...
IMO, the best scheme is:
Put the OS and apps on one volume, that you just leave alone. It will be mainly smaller files, so let OS X manage it.
Put your big work files, videos etc, on a different volume or (better) a totally different HD. Defrag that by depending on OS X's adaptive clustering plus copy/backup-erase-restore or a 3rd party defragger now and then.
Check out this Apple article for more detail. Even Apple recommends using a 3rd party defragger (see the end of the tech article)!
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668
- Dan.
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