hello,
i've given up on defragment tools for the moment - mainly because they seem
to take ages to do the job and i'm never sure how 'safe' they are - remember
when hfs+ came in?? i fried a lot......
so, the way i've got round it is to partition my hard drive to make it
'fragment friendly'. at the moment i have a 20gig disk split up like this:
os 9 = 2gig
app's = 2gig
os x = 2gig
working = 6gig
scratch 1 = 2gig
scratch 2 = 2gig
scratch 3 = 2gig
scratch 4 = 2gig
the four scratch disks see a lot of action through photoshop, ai, sound and
video files - i also have all my web browsers cache files and downloads
written here, basically anything that's going to get trashed. when i feel
things are getting sluggish i select the disk, go to the special menu and
select erase disk. this turns everything back to zero's and rebuilds the
desktop file. it also means there's no 'deleted but waiting to be written to
chunks' lurking around.
the system disks are trickier but seem to take longer to fragment. when they
need doing, i copy the whole disk to one of the scratch's, do the erase
thing on the system disk and copy everything back.
the applications disk very rairly fragments - because all it's used for is a
space to launch app's from, very little gets deleted or written to it.
that leaves the working disk. i tackle this in conjunction with my back up
routines. generally, every month i'll have a look at whats old and back it
up onto cd. it then gets trashed and if the disk is getting slow and has
very little on it i'll do something to the system disk routine.
it seems to work very well and so far i've had no major problems. the best
thing is that if i have a massive crash and one of the disk's won't mount, i
probably haven't lost the lot. in the past i've started up from the cd, run
disk first aid to get we working again (have you noticed you only crash a HD
when you've got deadlines and haven't got time to fix/ do a reinstall??!!)
and away you go again. it should be said that if something like that
happens, you should get working again and when you get a chance, blank th e
disk and start again - it's normally something major with the disk rather
than the system and should be sorted as soon as poss.
hope this helps,
jake
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