Hi Neil, Thanks for your post.
On 06/03/2011, at 10:50 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: > Sometimes you can't repair the disk if you're booted from it. This is not a startup volume, I always have my OS and general user data on different volumes (and in this case disks). > Here are a couple things to try. > > 1. Backup the data portion of the drive using Finder Copy or CCC or something > to a separate physical disk (2 copies if you have enough space). Verify the > size and number of files in the original and backup drives to make sure you > got everything. Comparing file numbers is a good idea but not sure where I will get that detail from, seems to pass quickly in most tools. > 2. Run a Time Machine backup if possible. That failing is what set all this off - unfortunately I continued to use the disk after TM failed to backup, not knowing if it was a TM problem or a disk problem. > 3. If you're running MacOS Server . . .and are using Open Directory . . > .export a copy of the database and any configuration files necessary for the > server. I should do that again anyway, thanks for reminding me. > 4. Boot from the installation DVD and try running Disk Utility from there. Not sure if that will help because its not the boot volume or disk. > 5. Try another disk repair utility like DiskWarrior. I don't own that but I my data is obviously worth the price - I have heard in the past though that it takes a lot of time and is not always successful (I guess that's obvious). > What you have is some sort of directory damage . . .there isn't enough > information to tell if the CCC copy is good . . .it likely is good but one or > more files (the ones that have bad directory entries on the original drive) > may be corrupted. Yes, this is what I was thinking too. I don't mind losing a small number of files (I guess). Of course, it may depend on which ones they are ;-) Thanks for your suggestions. Cheers, Ashley. > > > On Mar 6, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote: > >> >> Hi All, >> >> Every summer I have disk problems on our SOHO server (probably because of >> the excess heat and lack of fans on some external drives). >> > > > ----------------------------------------------- > There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking > stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. > > neil > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
