[X4U] disk warrior and unix commands

[David Ledger]

>From: spoonbender <chronos326 at earthlink.net>
>Hi all,
>I have a question, I understand there are unix commands you can use
>that do exactly the samething as diskwarrior. I.e.- rebuild the
>startup volume on your mac and check the for errors etc. Would anyone
>care to share their knowledge ?
>Thanx,
>spoonbender...

DiskWarrior rebuilds the main directory of HFS+ filesystems. Other 
Unix systems don't use HFS+ so there are no Unix HFS+utilities.

Unix filesystems are very much more robust than HFS+. I havn't heard 
of a Unix filesystem corruption that's not related to external events 
for years. Unix uses 'static' filesystems, in that the only changes 
to the disc are as a direct result of data movement. HFS+ is tree 
structured and the trees are dynamically balanced, so there's a lot 
more going on.

(The HFS used on HP-UX is a different filesystem altogether unrelated 
to Apple's HFS.)

David


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