What choice disk utilities for OS X?

[AlphaTech]

We won't be doing partitioning on the drives at work, more because that will extend the time to roll out the update as well as has the potential to cause way too many issues. We have to make the systems as easy as possible for the users, and I KNOW many users on the floor will be confused if they suddenly have a second drive show up on their desktop. Or if they see even less of their hard drive is available. Most of them know how to check drive size and such, and even more of them need/want every GB of space they have at present.

In some ways, it will be nice to lock them out of messing up the systems, or installing software when we do not want them to.

 

[Nipsy]

In support of my above statements regarding Norton's immaturity as an OSX repair tool:

Read the text for the offender's ID.

 

[FattyMembrane]

Ok, i just found out what fragmenting is, does this fsck program ( i butchered the name ) fix the fragmenting?

i've tried running drive10 to fix a problem that i assume was caused by maxtor's "beeping sleep" problem and the program crashed my computer twice. drive10 does not seem to do much and i am sorry to hear that norton for osx still has problems. i'm really hoping that a viable osx disk utility comes along soon.

 

[Choppaface]

you should probably run something once in a while. the whole 'if it aint broke, don't fix it' attitude only works up to a point he he

I treat my lombard PB pretty hard, often putting it to sleep with over 100 photoshop files open, not to mention jerking it around a lot physically. never ran any utilities on it for about a year or so, and then on a trip recently it crashed and refused to start up (flashing question mark thingy). took it to a genius bar at a nearby apple store and suprisingly they didn't have a spare DVD-ROM or CD-ROM module in stock (I left mine at home in cali...we were in boston at the time), not to mention none of the machines they had there had SCSI cards (so no target mode booting), so they couldnt fix it. it took it to another shop (I believe its called the Computer Loft) and they fixed it in about 40 minutes using diskwarrior....they said I apparently had major directory corruption or something...they didnt let me watch them do it so I don't know exactly what was wrong.

also every time my OS X box crashes (*gasp* yes my mac actually crashes) it always leaves behind an invalid free block cound among other things, so I use norton to clean that up. I've also used norton's defragger and it seems to work well...at least I've never had any probs with it


I've also talked to another guy who never uses disk utilities (unless he has to) because he just reinstalls the OS every few weeks. not a bad idea if you can spare an hour or so every once in a while to reinit, drop in the OS, and then drop in a few softies. assuming you don't have a billion apps that you rely on.....not to mention the time


the bottom line is that everybody does something a different way and there is no 'best way' no matter how much one mind want his or her way to be the best. constructive criticism is helpful, but the way in which some people treat this issue is really childish. enough with the little confrontations and drama and everything....do you actually want to get something done or do you just want to argue about how you think your way is good and everybody who doesn't believe you is a terrerest?