osx speed disk...
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- wwfc
...does anyone know of a good software package that acts like the speed disk programme did for os9 on a mac.
I have a first generation g4 aluminium powerbook - it has a shed load of stuff on it that I would lose if I initialised the hard disk - 3+ years accumulated software etc...
Is there any good (preferably free) software that I can use to clean up my hard drive???
Tell me do....
- madirish0
yes.
OS X has this functionality by default. Go to:
Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility and reformat, overwrite, 01010101, partition the thing to your hearts content.to reformat with the OS however, you will need to run the startup CD/DVD that came with your machine when you bought it.
- wwfc0
...cheers madirish - that is what I was hoping for ;-)
good karma to you amigo
- ribit0
Speed Disk was a disk de-fragmenter, which isn't needed at all in OSX.
- planet010
not needed? why? doesn't a hard drive work as it always has in osx?
- wwfc0
"Speed Disk was a disk de-fragmenter, which isn't needed at all in OSX.
ribit"...isn't it? I'm sure that the amount of shite that I have downloaded and installed on my mac has caused some holes to appear!
- madirish0
a unix file system does not need to be de-frag'd because it is impossible to fragment a UNIX hard drive.
unless you are writing directly to the drive via command line and dynamically partitioning it as you write the data, a UNIX drive will not fragment the incoming data across sectors.
it is literally impossible for UNIX to not write data sectors against one another; this is a primary reason for it's stability over a FAT32 file structure.