Lo, on Wednesday, October 13, Wayne Brehob did write:

> Unfortunately 'fsck'ing root (/) is not always easy to do.  The system
> will fsck it at boot if it thinks it's necessary, and it does tricky stuff
> like mounting it read-only (to get the 'fsck' exectable, etc.), then runs
> the 'fsck', and re-mounts read/write.  I don't know how to do this by hand
> (if it's even possible).  There may be a way to convince the system to do
> it at boot if it doens't otherwise think it has to, but I don't know how.

Reboot into single-user mode (cmd-S on boot); you can run fsck at the
prompt.  Depending on whether or not OSX knows the filesystem is
damaged, you may need to specify the -f flag to `f'orce it to check a
filesystem it thinks is clean.

Alternatively, I think you're supposed to be able to boot off the system
restore disk (or something like that), but I've not actually tried that.

Richard


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