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#176076 - 09/11/10 03:24 PM Defragging OS X drive using idefrag and Sno Leo well worth it :)
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I spent a couple of hours looking for idefrag yesterday, and finally came across a working copy. Didn't realize you could not defrag a disk that you were booting off so Sno Leo 911 came to the rescue. If you haven't heard of Sno Leo check it out here Your going to need a 4GB thumb drive, which can be had on craigslist really cheap. Once Sno Leo loads install idefrag 1.7.3 because that is the only version I could get to work, which worked out fine. The cool thing about idefrag is that is has different algorithms for defragging a drive. It can just lump the empty space together which I don't recommend or it can optimize the drive by putting/organizing similar files together on the drive. My cold boot up time before using this utility was ~ 2min after using idefrag it is ~ 1min 1min 15sec. Results may vary because I have never reinstalled the OS, and have been using the stock install since I got my machine in 2007 which was loaded with Tiger, and since has received all the major and minor updates. It took ~ 7-8hrs to defrag :-/ using the most optimized algorithm the program offers, and I had to repair permissions and the disk using Disk Utility after the defrag, but once that was done, boot time dramatically decreased smile
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#176096 - 09/12/10 01:51 PM Re: Defragging OS X drive using idefrag and Sno Leo well worth it :) [Re: ipatch]
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Did you realize you COULD or COULD NOT defrag? You can defrag a boot drive. Maybe OSX is different than Windows, if not.
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#176098 - 09/12/10 02:00 PM Re: Defragging OS X drive using idefrag and Sno Leo well worth it :) [Re: MacGyver]
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COULD NOT
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