[Ti] utility for defragmenting my internal HD?

[Loren Schooley]

It seldom makes sense to "defrag" a modern filesystem. In the first
place, it's much less likely to be fragmented because of its design. But
more importantly, if this is a typical multi-user system, consider that
disk block requests are coming from all the different users, and are
likely to be scattered all about the drive anyway. The OS and sometimes
the underlying hardware will do the best they can to arrange those
requests for the best access, but since the users will have different
requests, it isn't likely to help much to have files in sequential
blocks. If you still feel you need to defragment your drive, use one of
the Supertars to do it- just wipe everything out and restore it-
everything will be sequential. 

FSCK is all ya need. See > man fsck

-----Original Message-----
From: PowerBook G4 Titanium List
[mailto:Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Kemp
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:23 AM
To: PowerBook G4 Titanium List
Subject: Re: [Ti] utility for defragmenting my internal HD?


The / tells fsck to check the root file system.

fsck stands for file system check and is used to repair your disk after 
some bad event, typically a system crash or a power outage.

fsck does NOT have any capability to defrag your file system, unless 
this is a new feature that Apple has added to 10.2.3.

Jerry K



On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 10:19  AM, William Scammell wrote:

>> Open your terminal and type fsck -y
>
> i know that -y is some form of switch/setting, but what does fsck
> stand for/
>
> (* it looks rude *)
>
> :")
>
> bill
> ( who still lives in 9.2.2 Land )
>
> --


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