[X4U] Disk Utility vs Onyx

[Randy B.Singer]

nk said:

>OK..do you get a better result by booting the computer to the Install 
>disk, then using Disk Utility which comes on that disk?
>
>I seem to recall some of these maintenence operations going better when 
>the volume being worked on was not the boot volume at the time the 
>utility was run..maybe that pertains to the old days?


Yes, it does.

See:

OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
Item #1, especially Maintenance Myth #1

Of course, you can't run Repair Disk on the volume that you have booted 
from at all, because it won't let you.



Randy B. Singer

Co-Author of:
The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)

OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html