OK..do you get a better result by booting the computer to the Install disk, then using Disk Utility which comes on that disk? I seem to recall some of these maintenence operations going better when the volume being worked on was not the boot volume at the time the utility was run..maybe that pertains to the old days? thanks! nk On Oct 31, 2006, at 10:27 AM, B. Kuestner wrote: > They call the same command line tool behind the scenes. No difference. > > Björn