Uninstall os9 classic

Will uninstalling os9 classic from Tiger cause fragmentation problems? I was told this by an Apple technician, who recommended I not uninstall it unless I need space on the hard drive (which I don't). Am I better off just leaving it alone until I replace everything with Leopard when it comes out? If I uninstall it, how to I correct any fragmentation that may result?

Will uninstalling os9 classic from Tiger cause
fragmentation problems?
not unless you are very short on disk space.
I was told this by an Apple
technician, who recommended I not uninstall it unless
I need space on the hard drive (which I don't).
I'd leave Classic alone because it simply doesn't take up much space, and why remove it unless I know for absolute certain that I'll never use a Classic app again?
Am I
better off just leaving it alone until I replace
everything with Leopard when it comes out?
Why 'replace everything' even then? The simplest upgrades are an update upgrade, in which the old version of OS X is updated by the new version, and an archive update, in which the old versions of OS X is placed in a newly generated Previous Systems folder and an all-new System is placed on your hard drive. I've done update upgrades on my personal Macs without problems since OS X 10.1.x. I've done update upgrades on other Macs, at the office and elsewhere, with only minor problems except in a few cases, since the same time. All of the minor problems were easily fixed. The more serious problems were because the Mac in question either had certain 3rd-party haxies loaded and the user didn't tell me, or there were serious directory problems, or both. Fixes were straight-forward, if time-consuming. And since then, I simply check out the volume beforehand to avoid those problems.
If I
uninstall it, how to I correct any fragmentation that
may result?
Why bother?

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