On 18 9 2003 at 9:15 am -0400, Michael Lewis wrote: >Disk Utility and fsck run the same checks as far as I know, which is why >apple says the former "eliminates the need" for the latter. Plus it >keeps a person from having to hit that command line which many Mac users >are not familiar with; most are familiar with booting from a CD, though. :)
Yeah, Disk Utility just runs fsck_hfs. I've found it to be pretty useless though. The diagnostic output it gives is terse at best, there is no interactive mode (like e2fsck on linux for example), etc. Furthermore, I still apparently have disk damage (I forget the message, but it is dumped about 30 times for different inodes) on both my ibook and G4 disk that fsck says it has fixed, but which simply reappears verbatim the next time I run fsck (even immediately following the first attempt). -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
