Since it says "need _minor_ repair," it's probably nothing to worry about, but . . . if it were me I would go ahead and run OS X's Disk Utility program (found in ... /Applications/Utilities) and run the "Verify Disk" option and "Repair Disk" if it reports any errors. Just for peace of mind.
You shouldn't have to boot from an install disk to do this -- that's just for when your hard disk is so munged that it's the only way you can start up. Dan > Recently, without really knowing why, I decided to "Repair > Permissions" (probably something I read in MacWorld, but at the > time, I didn't know "Permissions" from an Intel chip). Now I > figure "Permissions" is probably not a real concern of mine; I'm > the only one who ever uses my Mac and can't imagine anyone else > would ever want to read or write to anything on it. But to back up > a bit: I went to First Aid and selected Permission Repair. It > repaired several. Then I went to Verify Disk, and I got the > following (in red): > > "Volume Header needs minor repair" > "The volume HD needs to be repaired" > "Error: the underlying task reported failure on exit" > > And under "1 HRS volume checked": > "Volume needs repair > > To do this, I was told to start up from my OS X install disk, then > choose Utilities>Disk Utilities. But the install disk is for OS X > 2.7 and when I ran it, it tried to install X 2.7 (I'm running OS X > 4.6). I didn't want to do that! My OS X 4.4.3 update disk > apparently has only the install program and Xcode 2. > > My Mac is running fine. Q: is this a case of if it ain't broke, > don't fix it? If it needs to be fixed, what do I do? > > Much thanks, > > Nolan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060419/750c0a4f/attachment.html
