Tag Archives: Drive

Massive disk corruption and data management

By Ryan | Published: April 5, 2009
I have experienced just about every disk corruption known to OSX and the feeling of despair never seems to go away. Just today I had the dreaded “Invalid B Tree node size” error which means my drive was disconnected before it was unmounted forcing it to write garbage to an important spot on the disk. I have [...]
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Defragmenting on the Mac

By Ryan | Published: January 1, 2009
Every time I talk about defragmenting on Macs there seems to be an uproar. Switchers tend to be stumped when trying to defrag and Mac loyalists cry impostor. If there is one thing I have learned about the Mac filesystem is that it fragments just like its Windows counterpart. The problem with defragmenting a Mac is [...]
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