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From: Greg@AppleLink.apple.com (Greg Marriott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What's going on after reboot?
Message-ID: <11356@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 90 12:24:43 GMT
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In article <1990Nov26.164508.19238@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> 
dcw@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (David C. Worenklein) writes:
>   After I hit the little reboot switch on the side of my Mac, or
> upon turning on the computer after not having issued a "shutdown",
> it takes a long time for the Finder to come up.
>   I'm just curious as to what is going on that tiny little head of it's?

The "dirty" bit on your hard disk(s) is set, and hasn't been cleared by a 
proper shutdown.  When the computer starts up and sees the dirty bit set, 
it does a verification of the file system data structures (since something 
"bad" happened and the computer was not able to shut down properly).  This 
is what is taking so long.

Greg Marriott
Just Some Guy
Apple Computer, Inc.