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DiskWarrior - A very useful disk repair tool
Greetings,
DiskWarrior - A very useful disk repair tool
I'm a UNIX guy as well (well, HP-UX to be exact...), so I know what you mean.
DiskWarrior - A very useful disk repair tool
Most users in THIS forum, I'd wager, prefer saving $80 to seeing GUI widgets.
DiskWarrior - A very useful disk repair tool
If you want to use fsck, then Disk Utility will do that just fine in a graphical manner. The problem is that Apple's fsck does not fix a bunch of problems that can occur with HFS+ (neither does Norton's Disk Doctor, for that matter).
DiskWarrior - A very useful disk repair tool
so being a unix god...lol
DiskWarrior - A very useful disk repair tool
Well, that's like asking what the difference is between KHTML and Gecko.
DiskWarrior - A very useful disk repair tool
Second that. I don't know how or why, but I've had DW fix things after Disk Utility failed.
DiskWarrior - A very useful disk repair tool
From my experience, DW fixes problems that fsck does not. I used to run fsck from console mode periodically, hence the direct comparison. Since Panther, with journalling turned on, fsck reports that it's no longer necessary.
DiskWarrior - A very useful disk repair tool
The fundamental difference between DiskWarrior and pretty much every other disk utility is how it approaches fixing your problem.
DiskWarrior - A very useful disk repair tool
I have used DiskWarrior for 7 or 8 years. It is often fixed problems when Apple Disk Utility, Norton, TechTools or even single user mode fsck reported the drive as being unsalvageable. What is the difference between fsck and DiskWarrior? I don't really know. As others have said, Apple's Disk Utility is a wrapper around fsck. (And it does a lot of other stuff too.)
DiskWarrior - What it does
DiskWarrior takes a completely different approach to disk repair that fsck/Disk Utility. For a very complete technical explanation and comparison of various disk utilities, check out David Shayer's article in the Nov 24, 03 issue of TidBITS (#707): http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07451
DiskWarrior - What it does
In the case of a client, that's just silly. When a client hires me to fix his computer, I need a tool to do the job. So I buy DW. The client doesn't have to buy it. A car mechanic isn't selling his clients tools whenever he fixes their car's isn't he ? That's why the client hires you. Otherwise he can do the job himself too.
DiskWarrior - A very useful disk repair tool
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