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A possible fix for 'overlapped extent allocation' errors
Authored by: Carbonide on Mar 04, '03 04:54:06PM

I did a post on MacFixit 2 days ago because I'm having the exact same problem even with journaling turned on on my PowerBook G4 since I received it 3 months ago (running 10.2.4 currently).

I *never* had to force quit any app, experienced no kernel panic and had only very few crashes of apps (about a handful I can remember).

Yet, despite of this stable set-up I have more than 400 overlapping files!! How's this possible?

A first run of DiskWarrior repaired some errors that could be fixed, but it failed to repair (move?) the overlapping files as the last step. So I tried Disc Utility but that didn't help either.

When trying to run DW a second time (as it suggested) I stopped it after about 10 hours as I thought it stalled. I've now started it again as someone suggested it can take over 16 hours. Is there a sure way to tell if it's still doing its job or just stalling (ProcessMonitor, top etc...)?

BTW, I checked for disc errors because when logging in under my normal user account, the dock restarts repeatedly and the Finder won't get loaded. Other users (including root) work just fine. Deleting prefs didn't help. Any other idea?



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