On Apr 19, 2006, at 12:55 AM, R. D. Preston wrote:

>>> My Mac is running fine.

then later says:

>>> But that error troubles me, as I've seen it before...and it was  
>>> associated with the disk's inability to mount or unmount.  
>>> Wouldn't that warrant fixing?  For me, the situation only got  
>>> worse (over time) until Disk Utility was able to fix it.
>
> Thoughts?

Doesn't sound like your Mac is "running fine" :) My tendency would be  
to run "file system check" by rebooting in single user mode, hold CMD  
+ S on reboot, then type /sbin/fsck ?fy at the prompt > run fsck -y  
as necessary until the HD appears as OK > then type reboot at the  
prompt. I'm share the opinion that repairing permissions is of  
dubious value...jf



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