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Carlo Medina · 01-23-2008, 12:10 AM

Yeah I'm not sure about defragging from a boot volume, and I've heard that the Coriolis program can be touchy and takes a very long time.

What I'm hoping for is that Carbon Copy Cloner, while it's copying all the files on my HD, isn't doing a low-level, block by block clone. If it's actually copying files, then hopefully the Mac OS/HFS+ combo which does a form of defragging on the fly will take over and the result will be a less fragmented clone of my HD. We'll see...

01-23-2008, 12:10 AM	#13 of 19
Carlo Medina Member Location: Here Join Date: Nov 1997 Local Time: 08:00 PM Local Date: 10-10-2008 Posts: 10,603	Re: Upgrading Macbook Pro HD, cloning advice sought Yeah I'm not sure about defragging from a boot volume, and I've heard that the Coriolis program can be touchy and takes a very long time. What I'm hoping for is that Carbon Copy Cloner, while it's copying all the files on my HD, isn't doing a low-level, block by block clone. If it's actually copying files, then hopefully the Mac OS/HFS+ combo which does a form of defragging on the fly will take over and the result will be a less fragmented clone of my HD. We'll see...