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From: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: HFS Consistency Check?
Message-ID: <442@amanue.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 89 03:01:04 GMT
Organization: Amanuensis Inc., Grindstone, PA
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Last night I got some very flaky results from my file system -- alert boxes
with error numbers (-39, -45 I think) that made me fearful my file system
wasn't consistent.  I looked up these error numbers in Inside Macintosh, so I
have a rough idea what it was telling me.  In one case it wouldn't let me move
a file to trash from MultiFinder claiming another application had it open.
Well, this was just plain false!  Can a hosed file system get names/icons
incorrectly linked??

I rebooted a couple of times, rebooted with Finder, etc.  Everything seems to
be fine now, but I'm still nervous.  As a long-time UNIX user and Mess-DOS user
only when I have to, but as a relative newcomer to the Mac world (7 months or
so) I find the lack of an out-of-the-box utility for checking the health of the
file system pretty galling.  Does the finder check the consistency of the file
system when the machine boots?  If it boots OK can I assume a consistent file
system?  (I sure doubt it!!).

What is the best program to simply check the consistency of the file system?
Symantec SUM?  Is there anything PD?  Please respond by mail; I don't get a
full feed of this group.  Thanks in advance for any help.
-- 
 Jim Rosenberg
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