Basically, one surefire way to defrag any hard disk is to clone it onto a Firewire hard drive, boot to some other volume, format your fragged drive, and re-clone it right back. At least, I haven't seen a defrag utility capable of running to completion on any of my Macs for years. Such a beast may exist, but I stopped looking for it, frankly. Also, IIRC Apple's HFS+ file management is supposed to do a fairly decent job of reclaiming released disk space, so fragmentation is (allegedly?) not as big an issue as once it was.
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Aside from identifying fragments.... - grikdog
Basically, one surefire way to defrag any hard disk is to clone it onto a Firewire hard drive, boot to some other volume, format your fragged drive, and re-clone it right back. At least, I haven't seen a defrag utility capable of running to completion on any of my Macs for years. Such a beast may exist, but I stopped looking for it, frankly. Also, IIRC Apple's HFS+ file management is supposed to do a fairly decent job of reclaiming released disk space, so fragmentation is (allegedly?) not as big an issue as once it was.Reply to This
Friday, July 08 2005 @ 09:15 PM PDT