Defragmenting my MacBook Pro (OSX)
Sunday, May 03rd, 2009 | Author: admin
While Apple says that OSX doesn’t need defragmentation due to the OS built-in method of coordinating disk writes blah blah blah…If you use your MacBook for awhile you’ll notice it will begin to lag and become less stable. Windows users can just run the defrag utility that comes with Windows, Apple users will have to purchase something (it figures right?) iDefrag is my choice, it works well.
There’s a catch though, if you want to do a “Full” defragmentation you’ll have to connect your Apple computer to another Mac and connect them via Firewire (if you have a new MacBook you’re screwed since that port has been omitted, you can no longer even grab video from your camcorder).
Start the MacBook that you want to defragment and keep the “t” pressed on it. It will boot in FireWire mode and its drive will be available to the other Mac for defragmentation…
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