Defrag a mac

[Paladin9]

How the hell do I defrag my mac?  Do not tell me to use speed disk!! I already know about it and I do not want to spend money just to simply defrag my mac.  What else is there?

[xyle_one]

i dont think you have to defrag a mac. i have never heard of anyone doing it, and sorta figured that it is unecesary.

[cahult]

When it comes to Speed Disk, I think that program is lying. My hard drive is no more fragmented than I

[Crunchy(Cracked)Butter]

Don't macs have an intelligent file system like linux so it prevents fragmentation in the first place?

[cocoamix]

Mac OS 9 benefitted from defragging, but OS X does not, AFAIK. I've never defragged my OS X box.

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by cocoamix:
Mac OS 9 benefitted from defragging, but OS X does not, AFAIK. I've never defragged my OS X box.

This is correct. OSX needs no defragging.

Norton Utilities for OS9 will defrag if you so need to, but fragmentation in OS9 is not such a big deal eather because of the way it stores Application DATA. Unlike a PC where a billion files can be scatered thrughout a harddrive, Mac files are usually few and self contained. So you rearly gain any benifit from defragging OS9 in the first place.