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It's not minor. It's a freaking pain in the rear to have to fix this every time you defragment or move/resize a partition.
by wfunction 11y ago
It's not minor. It's a freaking pain in the rear to have to fix this every time you defragment or move/resize a partition.
- hmottestad 11y agobefore the os goes into hibernation it can write the location of the hibernation image file to a special place for the bootloader to find. OSX also reserves space for the hibernation image, so it shouldn't get fragmented. And the defrag program probably doesn't increase the fragmentation for large files anyway.
- Someone 11y agoIf your defragmenter knows about the hibernation system, it will update the 'pointer' to the hibernation file. Also, you can only hibernate an OS that knows about hibernation. Such an OS would be foolish if it wouldn't write the current location of the hibernation file whenever it went into hibernation. So, this only is a problem if you hibernate your system, defragment its disk on another system using a defragmenter that doesn't know about hibernation files, and then try to wake up from hibernation. That might happen to people using an old version of a defragmenter, but I doubt it will happen often.