[G4] fragmentation

[John Niven]

I'm sure I read that using carbon copy cloner was the
way to defrag your HD. I thought (hoped) that was what
I was doing :-)

John

--- Richard Klein <richspk at gmail.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tyranny Bean
> > 
> > Also, if I were to try to salvage my files on my
> fragmented HD by cloning
> > the drive to another, would the fragmentation
> clone as well? Or, could I
> > clone the drive to another, reformat the
> fragmented drive and re-clone it
> > back to the reformatted drive - or would I be
> re-cloning the fragmentation
> > back onto the reformatted drive? Hope I that made
> sense.
> 
> *If* the drive cloning works the way I think it
> does, and copies files
> instead of individual bits, then it won't clone the
> fragmentation, but if it
> clones bit-by-bit, putting each bit in exactly the
> same
> track/sector/whatever it was in before, then it will
> clone the
> fragmentation.  I'd be surprised if any program
> you'd use would work that
> way, though.  A hardware drive cloner that you might
> use if you wanted to
> make hundreds or thousands of cloned drives, would
> probably do a bit-by-bit
> clone.
> 
> I'm just guessing on all that, but it sounds good,
> doesn't it?  :-)
> 
> -- 
> Rich
> 
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