It is too small a space, certainly, but he won't need to defrag the drive.
Apple, and techies, reckon that the journalling, if enabled, will obviate the
need for moving files around.
Chris
On 27 Sep 2010, at 17:45, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> If you've only got 22GB left on a 500GB drive it's also likely that the
> 22GB available is badly fragmented which means lots of head motion to
> find and use the available space. You could defrag it but that might
> just be a stop gap measure.
>
> An analogous situation might be you and 9 of your buddies are going to a
> football game where the stadium has a 500 car parking lot. You're each
> going to drive your own cars since you all have to go different
> directions after the game. You'd really prefer that everyone be able to
> park close together so you can easily find each other and you'd also
> like to be close the exit for a fast getaway. But when you get there
> you find there are already 480 cars in the lot and the 20 available
> spots are scattered all over. You first all have to spend a lot of time
> trying to find an empty spot and then more time trying to get yourselves
> back into a group.
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