[P1] Jaguar Checks Disks?

[david]

On 11/25/02 9:38 AM, "Charles Martin" <chasm at mac.com> wrote:

>> X-UIDL: 1038235072670
> From: Eric Schwarz <schwarztech at jmug.org>
>> 
>> I've heard rumors (if you want to call it that) that Jaguar (and maybe
>> other versions of OS X) run the fsck command (to check/repair disks) in
>> the background at startup - is this true?
> 
> It's not true. You can check by starting up in single-user mode and
> running fsck yourself.
> 
Charles -

If you try to run Disk First Aid on the startup disk, you'll see the
following message:

€ Disk First Aid cannot verify or repair the startup disk....The startup
disk was verified, and repaired if necessary, at boot time.

Is that incorrect?

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