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Measuring Fragmentation in HFS+
keyblob8K writes "Amit Singh takes a look at fragmentation in HFS+. The author provides numbers from his experiments on several HFS+ disks, and more interestingly he also provides the program he developed for this purpose. From his own limited testing, Apple's filesystem seems pretty solid in the fragmentation avoidance department. I gave hfsdebug a whirl on my 8-month-old iMac and the disk seems to be in good shape. I don't have much idea about ext2/3 or reiser, but I know that my NTFS disks are way more fragmented than this after similar amount of use."
This seems especially relevant with the novel dinosaur advertisement. :)
Maybe he ran defrag in windows and measured how many bright blue blocks were next to the medium blue blocks and the dark blue blocks. :-)
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it's not how fragmented your disk is, it's what you can do with your fragmented disk that counts.
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I just put my hard drive in my drier when it is fragmented. Since the group of unfragmented bits weighs more than the fragmented ones, The spinning action causes all of those stray bits to attach to the greater mass.
This is a very arcane procedure in XP. I shall try to explain, but only a professional should attempt this.
1. Right click on drive icon, select properties
2. Select Tools tab and click on "Defragment Now"
3. Click on "Analyze"
4. When analysis finishes, click on "View Report"
This shows two list windows, one containing general properties of the disk such as volume size, free space, total fragmentation, file fragmentation and free space fragmentation. The second list shows all fragmented files and how badly they are fragmented.
Mostly because they end up re-installing the OS every year or so!
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Apparently you are actually a closet Rational Linux Advocate. I'm sure there are a few people in the drooling horde reading these comments that will have a problem with someone being foolish enough to actually choose to run Windows on anything ;)
I run Gentoo on my laptop, but the specs on the crusty old thing are so low that my only other "choice" would be the run Windows 95, and I'd sooner eat my usb key than do that.
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
Does anyone else think that statement is a bit odd? Maybe it's just me, but I think he's being a little bit presumptuous about the programming skills of the average geek site browser.
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parted? I thought that was only used to fiddle with FAT...
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Yes, I run WinXP on my Toshiba laptop -- deal with it
Actually, me thinks it's actually you who will need to "deal with it" ;)