>I've never gotten a complete answer on the value of defragmenting under >OS X either. For the longest time I didn't think there _were_ any >utilities to do this in X. Having never defragged my hard disk I shudder >to think of what it looks like at this point.
Tid-Bits did an article a while ago which basically said that with modern hard disks, there's no point in defragging. Generally, the defragging process itself takes more time to accomplish than the performance gains you'll achieve with it, and with the risk of data loss that accompanies it, it's basically worthless. See <http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07254> --- Scott T. Hards President HobbyLink Japan (www.hlj.com)
