On 12/30/02 10:50 AM, Paul Berkowitz deftly typed out: > (Actually, each time you restart the computer, it does a First Aid check and > repair of your Hard Disk, so you really never need to use the CD for this. > There are more sophisticated 3rd-party utilities such as Disk Warrior which > are available if your disk is ever really whacked.)
Paul, I profoundly apologize, but I suffer from Anal-Retentive Disorder and I find myself, beyond reason, needing to clarify this statement. ;-) Technically, during the boot process the OS checks whether the filesystem is marked "clean" which is done as part of a normal shutdown. If the filesystem is found to be clean then the boot process proceeds normally. If the filesystem is found to be "dirty", then the boot process is interrupted by a single pass of the Disk Utility. I mention specifically that only a single pass of Disk Utility is performed because that is sometimes not enough to clean the filesystem. Multiple passes are needed in those situations until Disk Utility reports that no problems have been found. As stated in my first sentence above, I am a freak, so I prefer to do this in single-user mode with the command-line fsck, but one can do this started up from the Install CD as well by selecting "Disk Utility" from the File menu at the installer screen. I have found my need for Disk Warrior greatly reduced since running OS X and doing multiple passes of disk repair and of course now, with 10.2, we can make use of Journaling to do away with filesystem repairs almost altogether. -Remo Del Bello -- "It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope." - Gandalf the Grey in "The Lord of the Rings" -- 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/>
