Paul This was passed on to me by my Mac consultant, Mike McDonald. Not sure if it's common knowledge. It sure is useful. Feel free to post this on the newsgroup also.
Richard fsck your disks occasionally. Yes, that's fsck. It stands for file system consistency check, and it's one of the most important UNIX utilities. You may not use it often, and you won't use it in the normal OS X environment, but you will use it. If you have a crash, it's a very good idea to run fsck on your drives on the next boot. To do this, launch OS X into single-user mode by holding down command-S during the boot cycle. If this works, you'll see a big ugly black screen with white text come into view. Lots of startup messages will go by, and you'll be left at a command line prompt. The instructions are on-screen, but basically, type /sbin/fsck -y and repeat until you get no more reported errors. Once the errors are cleared out, type exit to restart the machine in the normal OS X Aqua environment. Even if you haven't had a crash in a while, start in single-user mode and run fsck every once and a while; it's good preventive medicine. -- http://www.drshane.com 303-449-0778 3985 Wonderland Hill Avenue Boulder, Colorado 80304 -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
