[MacDV] Re: Disk fragmentation

[Dorothy Hennings]

Thanks for your suggestions, Mark.
I have the older Disk Warrior but not the version for OSX. I have only 
music and iMovies on the HD, and I guess i'll just wait awhile and try 
to delete stuff down to a point where I can  reformat the partition.  I 
have no place to move the data to temporarily.
On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 11:30 PM, Mark M. Florida wrote:
>>
> Yes, stay away from Norton.  Bad ju-ju.  For most disk problems, Disk
> Warrior can do the job -- use version 2.1 for Mac OS 9, or the 
> soon-to-be
> released 3.0 for Mac OS X.  I don't know if there's a defragging 
> utility
> included with DiskWarrior 3, though -- there's a defrag utility with
> DiskWarrior 2.1, but I've never used it -- I usually don't have a 
> problem
> with fragmentation, and if I do, I just back up my files, reformat and
> restore.  Just re-writing the files in one pass (after backing up and
> reformatting) is in itself a method of defragging a drive.
>
>> Do you think Norton from the OS 9.2 partition addressing the external
>> firewire would be OK?
>
> On the other hand, if you used DiskWarrior first, then Norton 
> SpeedDisk (not
> Norton Disk Doctor!), then DiskWarrior again after the fact, that's 
> probably
> a safe way to defrag the files without reformatting your hard drive.
>