abednarz.net » defrag http://abednarz.net/wp Bed Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:20:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Disk Fragmentation & OS X: When Does it Become a Problem? http://abednarz.net/wp/2009/04/disk-fragmentation-os-x-when-does-it-become-a-problem/ http://abednarz.net/wp/2009/04/disk-fragmentation-os-x-when-does-it-become-a-problem/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:07:27 +0000 bed http://abednarz.net/wp/?p=400 Disk fragmentation is an old problem that has affected every operating system throughout history. File fragmentation occurs when a single file isn’t located in the same physical location on the disk, but is scattered around. OS X does a great job at minimizing file fragmentation by rewriting files in contiguous space when a file is opened, is under 20MB and contains more than eight fragments. This works quite well to prevent heavy file fragmentation, but what it doesn’t prevent is free space fragmentation.

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