How to Defragment a FATx or NTFS (NON-MAC) partition/drive in Mac OSx

This is not another discussion about "How to defragment a native Mac partition/drive"
I've been roaming around lots of forums and everybody ask how to defragment a Mac Drive or Partition.. and the answers are always like "Why would you even want to defragment a your Mac.. OSx automatically does it for you.. Mac is so wonderful that ... bla bla bla..." ... I GOT IT, Ok..?
This time is different, I would like to know...
What tool should I use to defragment a NON-Mac Disk/Partition??
Say that you happend to have an external hard drive, which is in FATx or NTFS (Windows) format, then you attach it to your Mac and.. wel.. you want to defragment the disk from there because you just dont have windows Laptop/PC on hand.
Is this even possible from Mac, given that Mac OS is so wonderful that does not even need to defrag its file system?
I hope everybody understand my question before giving me the same answers once again.
Thank you very much!

mat060 wrote:
This is not another discussion about "How to defragment a native Mac partition/drive"
I've been roaming around lots of forums and everybody ask how to defragment a Mac Drive or Partition.. and the answers are always like "Why would you even want to defragment a your Mac.. OSx automatically does it for you.. Mac is so wonderful that ... bla bla bla..." ... I GOT IT, Ok..?
This time is different, I would like to know...
What tool should I use to defragment a NON-Mac Disk/Partition??
Say that you happend to have an external hard drive, which is in FATx or NTFS (Windows) format, then you attach it to your Mac and.. wel.. you want to defragment the disk from there because you just dont have windows Laptop/PC on hand.
Is this even possible from Mac, given that Mac OS is so wonderful that does not even need to defrag its file system?
I hope everybody understand my question before giving me the same answers once again.
Thank you very much!
Use DiskWarrior, respect your fellow users here, and perhaps stop with the multicolour, multi-font sized posts, which annoy the h#ll out of people that would normally help you.
DiskWarrior will do all you need to do, except perhaps for a Permissions repair once or twice a year if you believe it to be necessary.
Cheers
Pete

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