[X Newbies] Flaky Input

[Randy B. Singer]

Charles Martin said:

>> From: "Chris Walker" <chris at mymac.demon.co.uk>
>> Since we have strayed into the area of disk Utilities, what would you
>> suggest as the best one to use for de-fragging a Disk.
>
>Nothing. Panther does this by itself to a limited extent, and the OS is 
>designed to cope with it.

Panther handles file fragmentation (programs broken up into bits all over 
the drive), but it is still subject to a lot of disk fragmentation (space 
between files on the drive).  All that you have to do is run a file 
defragmentation program that gives you a map of fragmentation prior to 
defragmenting to see it.

If you get a lot of disk fragmentation, you will eventually run out of 
free contiguous space on the drive for virtual memory and the like.  


Randy B. Singer
Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)

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