[X4U] Re: Defragmentation, was Cause of kernel panics
Neil Laubenthal
neil at laubenthal.net
Sat Mar 19 13:12:52 PST 2005
At 12:15 -0800 on 3/19/05, Randy B.Singer wrote:
>
>At this point all the major authorities agree that if your drive is
>approaching 20% full you should defragment your drive to stave off funky
>behavior or even directory damage, or you should get a new drive (which
>is, of course, a perfectly fine way of handling the situation, though not
>an economical one if you have a huge hard drive and expect to make use of
>multiple gigabytes of unused space on it.)
So what's the best thing to defrag with these days . . . I've sort of
sworn off of Norton Utilities as it gets blamed for lots of things .
. .and haven't kept up with the current state of these utilities.
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Neil
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