[X4U] Re: Defragmentation, was Cause of kernel panics

Eugene list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net
Sun Mar 20 01:53:21 PST 2005


On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 06:35:56PM -0500, Mary C.Youra <mcyoura at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
: 
: On Mar 19, 2005, at 6:09 PM, 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,
: 
: Randy--
: 
: Do you really mean 20%  full?
: 
: I thought I'd understood you to say previously 80% full (meaning 20% 
: space remaining). If it's needed at only 20% full, I should start 
: paying attention.

I'm pretty sure Randy meant "20% *to* full".  Slip of the grammar.


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Eugene
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