[droliff]

Hi All,

I ran Disk Warrior on my G4 dual 1.2 80 gig drive and it's telling me that I don't have more than 77mb of contiguous free hard drive space. There are 14 gig of actual space left on the drive. Does this mean that the drive is very fragmented? I'm running OS 10.2.8
What is the best/safest way to defragment my hard drive?
I do a large volume of Photoshop work and some digital video editing.
What's the best way to keep my hard drive in the most optimized condition?

Thanks in advance for any input.

Regards,

Dennis

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[CatOne]

Dude this is a SOFTWARE question, not a Power Mac question.

[tooki]

AFAIK, TechTool Pro is the only OS X-native disk defragmenter.

tooki

[absmiths]

Originally posted by tooki:
AFAIK, TechTool Pro is the only OS X-native disk defragmenter.

tooki

Drive 10 does it as well (also from Micromat), although they are both DOG SLOW and you have to disable journalling for it to work.

[CharlesS]

DiskWarrior will still work even if you don't have the contiguous disk space. Just don't pull the plug on your Mac while it's working.

Basically, what it does if you have enough contiguous space is to write the new directory to disk before deleting the old one, so that if something goes wrong while it's writing, no damage is done and it can just use the old directory.

Without the contiguous space it just does what all the rest of the disk utilities would do anyway. As long as your power doesn't go out while it's working (which is a pretty low chance) you will be fine.