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How often do you use disk defragmentation? And how safe is it to run it for the first time on a brand new PC?
kurabrhm said:How often do you use disk defragmentation?
And how safe is it to run it for the first time on a brand new PC?
Tarheel25 said:Or get a real computer (Apple) and never, ever have to do things like this.
kernelthread.com/mac/apme/fragmentation/Heathen Dawn said:A hard disk on a Mac never suffers fragmentation? Are you sure? Can you explain why?
Tarheel25 said:kernelthread.com/mac/apme/fragmentation/
Full documentation there. Put a www first. I cannot post full web links yet, not enough posts.
Site Posted said:Note that I do not intend to make any claims regarding the fragmentation-resistance of HFS+. I have sampled too few a volume to generalize my "results". This discussion is more illustrative than empirical, wherein I am only suggesting a tool/method that you could use to gauge your own volumes' situation.
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While Apple does not provide a defragmentation tool, they introduced a few HFS+ optimizations in "Panther", two of which play important roles in countering (even undoing) the fragmentation of files that are below a certain size, and are frequently accessed.
Tarheel25 said:Or get a real computer (Apple) and never, ever have to do things like this.
Oblivious said:Just re-read the OP I personally don't see a reason to run a defrag on a new PC. In fact, I bet if you try to run it Windows it will tell you the drive doesn't need to be defragmented.
kurabrhm said:If an Apple is a real computer I would rather still buy the orange, thanks very much.
theartist87 said:I woudn't think it was a virus, usually they are made more... annoying..... Check your sound settings... Does it happen when you do a certain thing, such as click on an icon, or browse webpages? It could be in your sound settings...
Subtotal said:Do you use McAfee SecurityCenter? If so, a bell sound goes off every time it installs a new update.