[X4U] Disk Utility on Panther and Tiger

[Crandon David]

The scoop is you should always use the latest version of DU that you  
have to repair all volumes. However, repairing permissions should  
only be done with the version that is on each individual volume.

David Crandon


On Oct 10, 2005, at 8:22 AM, Wayne Clodfelter wrote:

> I have a Panther boot volume and a Tiger boot volume.
> I started up in Panther and was going to open Disk Utility to  
> verify the Tiger disk.
> Oops! What if DU on Panther is not compatible with Tiger?
> It probably isn't--though I have not seen a statement to that  
> effect anywhere.
>
> Two thoughts here.
> ONE, Disk Utility under a superseded version of OS X should not  
> even be able to verify/repair a system disk of a later release  
> unless it is compatible. Does anyone know if it attempts the verify/ 
> repair of if it balks when such a run is attempted?
>
> TWO, it should be possible for the latest version of Disk Utility  
> to be installed/copied over to boot volumes containing earlier OS X  
> releases.
> Has anyone done this and achieved a working application? How did  
> you achieve the install/copy?
> Of course, this raises the question whether the latest release of  
> Disk Utility is always backwards compatible with earlier OS X  
> incarnations. Is this true or not?
>
> Regards,
>
> Wayne Clodfelter
> wayne at troutnc.com
>
>
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