On Oct 13, 2004, at 5:29 PM, Richard C. Cobbe wrote:
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.
One thing to try is BootCD. You can create a bootable disc with what utilities you want on it. Good for diagnosis, repair, etc....I found it slllllooooowwww to boot, but not bad once up and running.
-Bart
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