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Where is the defrag my hd ?
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After a long long wait (more than a month), I finally got my 15" pb.
Everything seems fine for about a week of ownership. I'm a switch. I cannot find any defrag and disk clean tools to maintain the hd. Can someone kind enough to me where can I find these on the internet, please.
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Others here can help you with third party utilities, but you shouldn't need to defrag on your Mac. I've never done it - and I've used several Macs for the last 4 years.
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Welcome!
Unix[like] OS don't generally come with / have / require defragmentation software. If you really feel the need to burn money then there is DiskWarrior or Drive10 and of course the ever crap Nortons Utilities. DiskWarrior and Drive 10 offer a few other things like data recovery.
the biggest bit of maintanance I suggest you do is to run "Repair Permissions" every month or so, or after a major software update. This is located in the Disk Utility app.
Of course there is always the command line 'fsck' which is the filesystem checking application.
Also enable Journaling on your drives. It'll save some pain.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...02111200220086
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oh boy, here we go again.
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I agree with the above posts... don't worry about defragging your Mac's HD. It won't need it. The HFS & HFS+ file systems are written in such a way as to minimize file fragmentations, especially if you maintain plenty of free space on your HD (say, 20% free).
For disk maintenance, I'd get DiskWarrior, though you'll only need it if/when Apple's Disk Utility fails to repair an error (happened to me once - three months ago on a FireWire drive that was disconnected mid-write - in 9 years of using Macs).
In my opinion, avoid Norton's MacOS X products. I've heard many horror stories. Others may disagree.
Enabling file system journaling in Jaguar 10.2, as posted above (standard in Panther 10.3) will help prevent corruption should the machine crash or require a hard-restart.
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People here are saying your disk won't need defragmenting, but when I ran Diskwarrior on mine (it had something like 40% non-contiguous data blocks, or whatever Diskwarrior calls them), I noticed a VAST improvement in performance from the computer. The drive might not NEED defragmenting, but defragging certainly HELPED mine.
I was reminded of my Windoze days when I would have to reinstall the OS every year or so, and with it there was of course a vast improvement in performance. Defragging my OS X drive was that good.
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