Defrag with Command Line?

**smilinggoat** · April 6th, 2002, 03:30 AM

I was in the Apple Store in Palo Alto the other day and I was talking to some workers there and one said it may be possible to defragment one's hard drive through the command line.

I have an iMac DV with OS X 10.1.3 and OS 9.2.2 on seperate partitions. I want to defrag the OS 9 side without paying for some simple disk utility. I don't really know any *NIX admittedly, but does anyone know if it's possible to defrag the OS 9 partition through the command line?

thanks,
the Smiling Goat

**rinse** · June 20th, 2002, 09:46 AM

Hmmm. Good Question. I would assume at one time or another a defrag Utility has been written for the Command Line...

Any *nix gurus out there want to take a crack at that?

**kilowatt** · June 20th, 2002, 02:33 PM

Defragmenters have to be written for a specific file system. While I have seen these for ext2 (which arguably it doesn't need), I have never seen one for HFS(+).

I think the only solution at the moment is to pay

sorry dude