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From: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HFS Consistency Check?
Message-ID: <443@amanue.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 89 04:34:44 GMT
References: <442@amanue.UUCP>
Reply-To: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Organization: Amanuensis Inc., Grindstone, PA
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In article <442@amanue.UUCP> I write:
>I find the lack of an out-of-the-box utility for checking the health of the
>file system pretty galling.

Oh dear.  Oh dear oh dear.  Tell you all what.  Can I just pronounce myself
flame-worthy once and be done with it?  :-)  Someone was most kind with me (not
even a mild flame) in pointing out that by golly, there *is* a utility right
there in my distribution, Disk First Aid.  Live and learn.

I ran Disk First Aid and it did say my hard disk needed repair.  With heart in
mouth I said to go ahead.  It did a *TINY* amount of disk access and then said
the disk was clean.  Not knowing HFS internals, I'd bet it was reclaiming some
lost blocks that the bitmap said were used but that didn't belong to any file.
This sort of thing happens on almost every operating system I've ever laid my
hands on.  Still, it would be nice to be *told* what Disk First Aid was doing
to me as it did it.
-- 
 Jim Rosenberg
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