[CUBE] keyboard restart

Todd Masco cube-list-local at babayaga.org
Thu Mar 13 20:10:17 PST 2003


> Yes, this will shut down and start the computer. However it's a force
> quit that's virtually guaranteed to corrupt files, whether you're
> using OS 9 or 10. Not the best way. If you must do this, you'll also
> want to run DFA for OS9 or fsck for OS 10 to fix what you did.

This is why Mac OS X supporting journaling in HFS+ is a clear win over 
Mac OS 9.

For a good explanation of Journaling:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,634711,00.asp

And a script to allow you to do it a bit more safely than just issuing 
the diskutil command:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021210062213717

(The hint that it links to has a really wrong explanation of 
journaling, ignore it)



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