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panther need to be indexed or defraged?
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prior to os X, i regularly defragged my drive... after a while though with over 120 gigs of data backing up before defragging was becoming a pain so i stopped.. after running jaguar for a while one day I decided to clean my drive and defrag.. to my dismay I saw NO difference.
In compliment to what most people say on these forums.. you don't need to defrag.
In compliment to what most people say on these forums.. you don't need to defrag.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48421&defrag
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45303&defrag
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32589&defrag
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26837&defrag
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24849&defrag
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45303&defrag
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32589&defrag
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26837&defrag
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24849&defrag
As far as I know...a lot of programs that defrags your hard drive will NOT let you defrag it if your using Mac OS X.3 (Panther) with the new HFS+ Journaling file system. I guess because the file system keeps notes on where everything is, there is no need to defrag your system.
I've tried defragging using both Drive 10 and TechTool Pro 4 and neither one will let me defrag because of the HFS+ Journaling file system.
I've tried defragging using both Drive 10 and TechTool Pro 4 and neither one will let me defrag because of the HFS+ Journaling file system.
No, if programs won't let you defrag with Journaling turned on, it's because they don't know how to handle moving files around at a low level on a journaled volume. Journaling in no way makes a drive faster or prevents fragmentation--it is merely a data integrity check, and actually slows things down in most cases.
HOWEVER... 10.3 also includes some auto-defrag and optimization routines that have already been discussed. These are the reason that 10.3 probably doesn't need defragmenting under most conditions.
Defragmenting OSX seemed to be a more and more meaningless proposal as the OS got more efficient about file use, so I haven't bothered in a while.
HOWEVER... 10.3 also includes some auto-defrag and optimization routines that have already been discussed. These are the reason that 10.3 probably doesn't need defragmenting under most conditions.
Defragmenting OSX seemed to be a more and more meaningless proposal as the OS got more efficient about file use, so I haven't bothered in a while.
I defrag and....
it was a disaster, after i quit Norton's the black screen of death showed up, had to re-initialize the drive, I smartly had backed up everything to my powerbook and external fw HD, but stay away from it I dont recommend it. the best thing is to just get Cocktail, seems to be beningn for Panther.
it was a disaster, after i quit Norton's the black screen of death showed up, had to re-initialize the drive, I smartly had backed up everything to my powerbook and external fw HD, but stay away from it I dont recommend it. the best thing is to just get Cocktail, seems to be beningn for Panther.
