on 27/11/03 20:02, David Thrower at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- tivo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm using an iBook 900MHz OSX purchased new in June >> '03. Just ran newly >> purchased DiskWarrior. It showed 28% fragmentation >> of the hard drive. Is >> this normal for five months' use? >> >> I had the hard drive directory rebuilt. How often >> should I use the program >> as basic maintenance? > > I seem to get my boot partition pretty ragged just as > quickly in OS9.1 - mostly because I've been > downloading lots lately to a folder within it. > > I like to run Diskwarrior and PlusOptimiser (they > still come bundled together?) at least once a month. > Never had a disk go down in the years since I've done > that, except for mechanical failure of a bad drive.
I haven't ran any of these utilities in the close to 2 years I've been running OS X. No problem so far. -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gates's Law: "The speed of software halves every 18 months." This oft-cited law is an ironic comment on the tendency of software bloat to outpace the every-18-month doubling in hardware capacity per dollar predicted by Moore's Law. The reference is to Bill Gates; Microsoft is widely considered among the worst if not the worst of the perpetrators of bloat. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
