[X4U] Defrag utility for Tiger

[Kirk McElhearn]

On May 16, 2005, at 8:37 PM, Wayne Wilkin wrote:

> So if some users find defragin un necessary then how do you explain  
> the mac os inability to keep with the 15% rule. Which states that  
> in order for directory to be successfully rebuilt that the  
> directory should have at least 15% of  the hard drive space  
> continous free space. How many times have I gotten an error in  
> diskwarrior stating that a fail safe rebuilding of the directory is  
> not guaranteed because the drive is to framented. Which means to me  
> that if the OS is doing it's job of defragin itself then this  
> should not be a problem.

15%? That's something that's internal to DiskWarrior... That's a heck  
of a lot of space.

FWIW, I have _never_ had disk corruption since journaled volumes have  
been the norm.


Kirk

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