fsck -y question

[SharkSKin-Man]

Hi,

I'm something of a newbie to MacOSX and I've been having problems with my G4 867DP waking from sleep so I tried running fsck -y to sort out any disk problems.

It doesn't really appear to be doing much, I instantly get 3 lines of text, the last being something like "Checking HFS+ Volume" and then just get the prompt again there didn't seem to be any disk access. I left it for a while but nothing happened. How long should fsck -y take to run?

Probably a stupid question, but thanks in advance for any help.

 

[alex_ant]

I'm not sure about the Darwin version of fsck, but I would guess that it just read over the filesystem, saw nothing wrong, and quit. Are you using fsck on a mounted fs? It only works on unmounted ones. You could also try using Disk Utility instead. It's just a graphical frontend to fsck, but mybe it will work some kind of special magic that fsck doesn't...

 

[SharkSKin-Man]

Thank you...

 

[Sol]

Remember to type reboot after it has finished fsck-ing.

 

[beatle888]

Ah so thats what im suppose to type after running fsck. thanks you. i'll remember that.
even though i usually use the installer cd so i can repair permissions too.

 

[Stelliform]

If you hit open apple + "S" on boot the command is on the line above the prompt.

/sbin/fsck -y