[P1] Jaguar Checks Disks?

[Brian D. Silverio]

I can only speak for "other" unix systems.

There is a filesystem flag that indicates if a disk is mounted or not.
On system boot this flag is looked at for each filesystem that is
automatically mounted.
If the flag indicates the filesystem was unmounted properly, fsck is not
run.  If the flag indicates the filesystem thinks it is mounted, then
fsck is run.

So the answer to your question is:  fsck is run at boot only if the
system crashed.  

Again, I am speaking for the other flavors of unix that I have worked
with.  I am NOT an OSX expert.

Brian