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From: fred on 30 Jan 2006 06:50
What disk utility or utilities should be used on a disk containing 9.2.2
and X? Currently have Norton 6 and Disk Warrior 2 which are presumably
not suitable. The disk is currently shown as badly fragmented by
Speedisk but am reluctant to us it least it screws up X.

Alec
From: Bonge Boo! on 30 Jan 2006 09:55
On 30/1/06 11:50, in article 43DDFE44.41C0BE7F(a)hotmail.com,
"fred(a)hotmail.com" <fred(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> What disk utility or utilities should be used on a disk containing 9.2.2
> and X? Currently have Norton 6 and Disk Warrior 2 which are presumably
> not suitable. The disk is currently shown as badly fragmented by
> Speedisk but am reluctant to us it least it screws up X.

Speed disk does that when it see an OS X volume.

Defragging ( in my opinion) is dumb anyway.

If you need a clean contiguous space you should have a partition that
purpose.

From: Ron Bardo on 30 Jan 2006 10:24
In article <43DDFE44.41C0BE7F(a)hotmail.com>, fred(a)hotmail.com wrote:

> What disk utility or utilities should be used on a disk containing 9.2.2
> and X? Currently have Norton 6 and Disk Warrior 2 which are presumably
> not suitable. The disk is currently shown as badly fragmented by
> Speedisk but am reluctant to us it least it screws up X.
>
> Alec

I use a version on Tech Tool Deluxe that came with the eMac i'm using
as we speak. I recieves it as part of the Apple Care protection plan
when the 700mhz machine was purchased. It seems to to do the job for
this computer...

Hope this is of some help.


RonBardo<rmbardo(a)chartermi.net>
From: John on 30 Jan 2006 14:04
In article <0001HW.C003DF3A0209744FF0407550(a)news.ngroups.net>,
Margolotta <naggingdoubt(a)thebackofyourmind.invalid> wrote:

> I use DW and nothing else. OSX discs do not suffer from fragmentation (are
> you coming from a Windows background?) and it defrags files over 20MB on the
> fly.

Isn't that UNDER not over 20MB?
Just to add it also does adaptive file clustering where it puts the
most accessed files on the faster parts of the HD for faster
read/writes. Thus you may actually be slowing it down if you defrag.
From: Roger Merriman on 1 Feb 2006 09:07
John <john(a)NOSPAMfunkychicken.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <0001HW.C003DF3A0209744FF0407550(a)news.ngroups.net>,
> Margolotta <naggingdoubt(a)thebackofyourmind.invalid> wrote:
>
> > I use DW and nothing else. OSX discs do not suffer from fragmentation (are
> > you coming from a Windows background?) and it defrags files over 20MB on the
> > fly.
>
> Isn't that UNDER not over 20MB?
> Just to add it also does adaptive file clustering where it puts the
> most accessed files on the faster parts of the HD for faster
> read/writes. Thus you may actually be slowing it down if you defrag.

yup its under 20mb hfs+ seems to be quite robust in terms of
fraqmentaion prompted me to find a pdf about it. think apple are working
on a new format called hfsx?

roger
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