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Re: [Logic_Cafe] Re: Stripping Panther/Jaguar for Music

2005-01-30 by Maurits van de Kamp

> None of the daily/weekly/monthly tasks that run overnight do anything
> resembling a defrag.

True, it's just cleaning up logfiles and indexing the filesystem and stuff 
like that.

> They mostly just clean up temp files, system log files 
> and things like that. If you want your drive to be defragmented, you need
> to do it manually.

No. The operating system defragments the filesystems while using them, like 
any other decent Unix-based system does. When using Solaris, Linux or OSX 
there is a simple rule: Do not defragment, it is both risky and useless.

Maurits.

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