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FIle system corruption
Authored by: camyers on Aug 24, '01 02:28:48AM

I've had problems occasionally with apps not starting. I assumed it was a case of file system corruption. Using a hint which I think I got here at Mac OS X hints, I used the terminal command:

sudo /sbin/shutdown now

to get to single user mode then ran the file system check:

fsck -y

repeating until it said the file system was OK then:

reboot

to restart the machine (for all I know restarting the machine may have fixed the problem).

In a few cases the fsck command would not complete properly. In these cases I restarted in OS 9.1 and ran Norton Disk Doctor then switched back to Mac OS X . I'm not into UNIX enough to know if this is a bad use of the file system check instruction but it seems to work for me.



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