[MacDV] more about the inutility of defragmenting an OS X FS.

[James Asherman]

On Tuesday, December 30, 2003, at 10:31  PM, Peter van der Linden wrote:

>
> On Dec 30, 2003, at 6:38 PM, Juan Mariscal wrote:
>> When you off load a file delete it from the hard drive and then run 
>> some utility on the hard drive to remove any fragmentation of the 
>> hard drive to keep it moving quickly.
>
> According to Apple, disk de-fragmentation is "probably not required if 
> you use MacOS X"  and
>     "there is little benefit to defragmenting."

If you don't care about speed or organization or performance.

>
> See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668
>
> The tech pubs person who wrote that couldn't resist covering all the 
> bases by adding the (probably wrong, but carried over from OS 9) 
> information that "if your disks are almost full AND you OFTEN create 
> or modify large files [on this almost full fs], there's a CHANCE you 
> MIGHT benefit from defragmentation".
>
>      Peter
>
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