On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:17 AM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now, the first question is: Since the indexes seem to be corrupted, > what's a safe way to wipe them and force spotlight to do a full > reindex. John already answered this directly, but I'd be more concerned about why they became corrupted in the first place. It does happen from time to time, but in light of some of the other problems you've described, I would definitely check that disk for bad blocks (Techtool should be able to handle this) and then make sure there is no file system damage. > The second question is: Since one of those Hfs+ partitions is my Time > Machine backup, and as I understand it, Spotlight and Time Machine go > hand-in-hand, can that index be rebuilt without having to wipe and > restart my time machine? I don't know what you mean by hand in hand as these are entirely separate functions. You probably do not want your time machine drive indexed by spotlight in any event, so you may wish to exclude that drive from being indexed. > The third observation/question: One of those Fat32 partitions has > several sparse bundles, each of which is an Hfs+ image. One gets > copies of everything that happens on a Windows XP machine; one > provides a Time Machine backup for that. Neither of them will ever > mount cleanly without an fsck_hfs running. Neither of them every say > why fsck has to run -- nothing shows up in the log. Is this just a > consequence of the drive holding the sparsebundle having a damaged > index, or is this an indication that those also need to be wiped and > start fresh? This is a guess, but how large are those files? Fat32 has a hard limit of 4GB for any single file. It's possible you're running into that limit and your data is not being cleanly written to the sparse bundles, resulting in file system corruption within them. Or you might have a hardware problem. Check the entire drive for bad blocks and then run diskwarrior/fsck/your favorite repair utility on all file systems. -Matt _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
