Jan 16, '04 10:28:00AM • Contributed by: gmachen
I had a disk that barely mounted, making horrible grinding "seek" noises. So I ran Apple Disk Utility's Disk First Aid and it reported that its second partition had "minor volume bitmap damage." This was *not* the spurious report of damage associated with Journaling (the first partition reported no errors) as reported in Apple's fsck Reports Benign Errors When Journaling Is Turned On.
But Disk Utility refused to affect a repair because journaling was enabled. So I disabled journaling in Cocktail, then went back and ran the repair. Success! All is well now.
Then I turned journaling back on, and I'll still always use it, for it's safer than not doing so, but a word to the wise.
