On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Tannis Baker wrote:
I haven't tried Applejack but with my recent (and first ever)
harddrive
problems, I did follow instructions in The Missing Manual (Panther
edition) for starting in Single User mode and then entering: fsck -y +
Enter (or fsck -fy to force - not space after the k) to request a Disk
Check and Repair. Apparently this exercise will look a little
deeper than
Disk Utility - layer by layer - you have to repeat it until it reports
that the disk appears to be okay.
What does Applejack do differently? Does it automate the repeat
passes?
I'm still using Tiger, so I guess that isn't available to me?
I'm afraid I don't know all that Applejack is capable of. I barely
stumbled through it, but it gave me a choice of auto mode in which it
runs through its tasks automatically, or an interactive mode in which
I could choose tasks. I chose auto and just watched as it identified
the same things that Disk Utility said were wrong, said it was
starting to fix them, and then announced that it had. It also has a
"Deep Auto Mode" but since I really didn't understand what the read
me file told me about it, I didn't use it. And then it said there was
an expert menu available, but I didn't think they meant me.
I'm sure Chris could tell you a lot more.
Bill McIntyre
San Clemente, CA
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