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  • verb Present participle of defrag.

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Examples

  • Generally defragging is not necessary on OS X and some people even frown upon it.

    Mac OS X Defragmenting | Evil Genius Chronicles 2005

  • Advanced options available in Disk Defrag include a built-in scheduler for unattended optimization, as well as a setting for real-time defragging, which is performed in the background during computer idle times.

    columbiatribune.com stories < 2010

  • This whole ridiculousness known as The need for 'defragging' is one of the main reasons I moved over to Mac OS a few yeas ago.

    Five Best Disk Defragmenters | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • "Defragmenting or" defragging "a SSD takes up many write/erase cycles ... which shortens the lifetime of an SSD, even if it's also cleaning up the drive."

    Slashdot: IT CmdrTaco 2010

  • "Defragmenting or" defragging "a SSD takes up many write/erase cycles ... which shortens the lifetime of an SSD, even if it's also cleaning up the drive."

    Slashdot: IT CmdrTaco 2010

  • "Defragmenting or" defragging "a SSD takes up many write/erase cycles ... which shortens the lifetime of an SSD, even if it's also cleaning up the drive."

    Slashdot: IT CmdrTaco 2010

  • Defragmenting or "defragging" the hard drive is like running a virtual broom over it, sweeping the files together again.

    Lead Stories from AOL 2010

  • You might care to see what I, and then Mike Bombich, wrote about "defragging" in

    Discussions: Message List - root 2009

  • I see people debate the usefulness of "defragging" quite a bit, but I'm a proponent of it when done to optimize file arrangement rather than just straight defragmenting of files.

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • The best & fastest way of defragging: clone your system disk to another drive using diskutility/restore or 'Carbon Copy Cloner'.

    Clean Up And Revive Your Bloated, Sluggish Mac | Lifehacker Australia 2009

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