Gatot Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Here is my case: 320 GB SATA Drive Partition 1: NTFS -> WinXP Pro Partition 2: HFS+ Journaled -> OSX 10.4.7 Partition 3: FAT32 -> Data Some folks say that defragmenting in hackintosh is just like partitioning, never ever try this. But IMO, data partition may need to be "tuned up" somedays right? Then the question is, whether to use windows tools or OSX tools? Any idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustInSane Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Certainly partition 1 and 3 on your system must be defragged periodically. You have no choice about defragging partition 1 in Windows, because NTFS is a closed standard. Any NTFS drivers created on non-Windows platforms are taking guesses at how to interpret that data, so the integrity of a non-Windows NTFS defragger is questionable. Since you will be defragging your NTFS partition in Windows, you might as well do the same for your FAT32 partition. Even more favorable is to replace the FAT32 partition with EXT3. EXT3 never has to be defragged, and there are EXT3 drivers for both Mac and Windows. Plus EXT3 will support larger files than FAT32. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 EXT3 sound great! any tools would help... thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustInSane Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 EXT3 sound great! any tools would help... thx http://www.fs-driver.org/ http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread693.html http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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