How can I defragment hard drive on ibook?

I'd like to defragment the hard drive on my ibook. How can I do that?

Okay, Rod and Barry. I've read both of your posts half a dozen times, and all I am is confused. You guys are too smart for our own good.
Most folks here don't have a lot of huge files they are dealing with. The automatic optimization will work for most.
While I believe a bootable clone would be a desirable backup, a lot of people here don't have a method to achieve that (i.e., an external drive or second computer with a large enough drive to accommodate such a backup).
I make do with backing up my home folder to my eMac's hard drive now and then (not as often as I should) and am longing for an external hard drive to learn how to do a bootable clone as backup. Many people here don't even have a means to backup their Home Folder.
What do you advise to them? Certainly, if you are working with PhotoShop or other large files, you need an external hard drive, and probably (almost assuredly) have one. But most people posting here use their iBooks the way your wife uses hers, Barry, without the luxury of having you to do regular maintenance on it.
Guys, keep your audience in mind here, please. What do you advise we masses do in the way of maintenance? (I have been using my iBook since January of 2004, and have done nothing more sophisticated to the hard drive than repairing the hard drive, repairing permissions, using DiskWarrior two or three times to rebuild the directory--when necessary, i.e., glitchy, and an Archive and Install in July of 2004 when DiskWarrior wouldn't do its trick.)
It is quite possible that our original poster may be experiencing a slowdown and would benefit from the advice to simply repair the hard drive and permissions.
Brainbush, try booting into Safe Mode. This will take awhile longer than a normal startup because it does a file check and repair of the hard disk.
You will see your normal desktop. Once completely started up, restart normally, and go to Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility and repair permissions on the hard drive.
See if a little hard drive maintenance helps things out.

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