I have a Mac Book Pro OS X. Is there anyway to defragment or clean up the systems hard drive?

3 thoughts on “I have a Mac Book Pro OS X. Is there anyway to defragment or clean up the systems hard drive?”

1. dunkin17325 says:

   February 6, 2011 at 2:20 pm

   OS X is built on top of the liunx family. As far as I know, the file system coupled with OS X does not need to be defragmented – it is a process that happens automatically in the background

2. Zach R says:

   February 6, 2011 at 2:20 pm

   OS X doesn’t need to defragment. It uses the HFS plus file system which doesn’t result in fragmentation like NTFS or FAT.

3. mac_fixit says:

   February 6, 2011 at 2:20 pm

   Its not needed although if you really want to there is the System utilities folder in Applications.

   This book might also come in handy
   The Missing Manual
   http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529529/

   You can set up a simple script in Terminal to do it once a month if you really need to.

   Also Disk optimization from Apple here
   http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668

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