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fsck done in Safe Boot mode
Authored by: hayne on Aug 14, '03 02:47:01PM

'd like to point out that when you restart in "Safe Boot" mode (hold down the Shift key while restarting), the script /etc/rc.boot does an 'fsck -fy' automatically.

This means two things:
1) There is nothing wrong with doing 'fsck -fy' even if journalling is turned on.
2) A possibly safer (though certainly less convenient) method for forcing the fsck is to do a Safe Boot once in a while. After doing the Safe Boot, you should immediately restart again (without holding Shift) since some things are disabled when in Safe Boot mode.

I don't see anything wrong with the modifications (but I'm not going to test this on my system) and if something does go wrong, I think you should be able to boot into Single User mode (holding Command + S at restart) and restore the /etc/rc script from your backup copy (e.g. /etc/rc.original)



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