I like to defrag my 4530s

[the3rdknuckles]

Just wonder what I have to do it i'm not 100% sure on the process. So I go to disk utility then click on macintosh hd which is my first partition then click repair partition right? I'm not sure if that will mess up my boot loader or not. Will I have to reinstall chimera?

 

[Hellmark]

Defragging is pretty much a Windows only thing. Linux and Mac OS are much more intelligent about handling that. With HFS+, just reboot every now and again, and it'll go through and take care of stuff on boot.

The Verify/Repair disk thing in Disk Utility, is just for disk errors.

 

[riodoro1]

First of all, why would you do that ? It is not NTFS where the fragmentation is terrible, also, OS X takes care of the hard drive by itself, and if EVER You have problems with files permissions or some other filesystem related problems Repair it in Disk Utility without worry, it won't break chimera/chameleon

If you have performance problems, try CCleaner from AppStore

 

[the3rdknuckles]

I just wanted to clear up space on my hard drive because it looks like what's listed in my istats is more than I'm actually using. Thanks anyways

 

[riodoro1]

try CCleaner, it deletes some junk and temp program files, so it will always free something up, but the rest of it You will have to take care of

 

[willpower101]

Journaled Os's don't defrag. Don't worry about it.

 

[Hellmark]

Journaled Os's don't defrag. Don't worry about it.

Not entirely true, NTFS is journaled and it fragments like a mother.

I've been using OSX for the past 7 years, and in my experience, the space being taken up that you're experiencing, usually is paging info, and gets freed up when you reboot. I've had as much as 10 gigs get freed up after a reboot when it has been a long time.

 

[Dewitts]

Quote from Apples website (can't remember what product I was looking at I just remember seeing it) Defragmenting is done "on the fly"

Hope that helps