[X4U] Re: Defragmenting a journaled disk

[PoolMouse]

joshua hough <soyjourner at mac.com> wrote:

>I had journaling activated on one of my drives.  I booted from 
>another drive and ran TechTool Pro 4's "Optimization" tool to 
>defragment that drive.  I was unaware that TTP was not supposed to 
>allow me to do that.  It had not identified the drive as journaled. 
>The TTP manual indicates the Optimization tool should have been 
>grayed out for that drive, but it wasn't.  After the defragmentation 
>completed, the drive was severely damaged and much of the contents 
>were unreadable.  Two questions:
>
>1.  Why would TTP allow me to optimize the journaled disk?  Are 
>there special cases where it's allowed?
>
>2.  Was the damage 100% positively caused by this action?  Does this 
>always happen when you defrag a journaled volume?
>
>Thanks,
>-Josh

marketing hype aside, there's little to no value in "defragging" your 
drive. it's a waste of time...and as you just experienced, it's 
dangerous. ditch the "defragging" tool. anyone (including apple) who 
deploys/manages large scale mac enterprise/school environments will 
roll their eyes at the very mention of the so-called need for 
"defragging".

disregard advice from those with ties to third party vendors who WANT 
you to believe you need a "defragging" tool (or sugar pill).

buy a bigger drive.

don

don montalvo, nyc