Question from a PC User

[daveL]

Originally posted by e-coli
You don't need to run FSCK. OS X automatically runs FSCK when you boot up.

You needed to run FSCK before Jaguar. That's old news.

I'm reading along here, and I'm saying to myself "run fsck manually?". Every Unix machine I've used in the last 17 years always ran fsck as part of the boot process. The only time you have to run it manually is if you crash the system in the middle of disk i/o and end up with some corrupted file system inodes. Thanks for verifying that I haven't dropped some bits somewhere.

BTW, Panther's HFS+ filesystem is now "journaled", so fsck'ing manually should be a thing of the past, except in very weird situations.

 

[Fender2112]

TechTool anyone?

Any of you folks every use TechTool? I understand it is supposed to be a good all purpose utility for disk repairs, checking RAM and processor performance and other such functions.

 

[pEZ]

If I'm wrong, don't jump all over me, but in my experience, Jaguar doesn't run fsck at startup unless the computer was incorrectly shut down or a power outage or something - I say this because sometimes, startup takes longer after a forced shut down than a normal shut down or restart. Also, there are times when I would boot into single user mode and it would find a large series of problems that would span many runs of fsck.

 

[e-coli]

Originally posted by pEZ
If I'm wrong, don't jump all over me, but in my experience, Jaguar doesn't run fsck at startup unless the computer was incorrectly shut down or a power outage or something - I say this because sometimes, startup takes longer after a forced shut down than a normal shut down or restart. Also, there are times when I would boot into single user mode and it would find a large series of problems that would span many runs of fsck.

The extra boot time is for repairs. After the repairs, it will run fsck again.

But on a normal bootup, fsck will execute very quickly.