[P1] OS X Help Please

[Joost van de Griek]

On 2003-03-17 16:10, Jack Rodgers wrote:

> 
> On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 06:38  AM, Joost van de Griek wrote:
> 
>>> i started it using apple-s. it ran through some text on black background and
>>> now says to run '/sbin/fsck -y' and then '/sbin/mount -uw'    ....yikes!
>>> feedback? thanks.

I didn't write that.

> When I did the command+s, I did not receive the instruction line as I
> normally see, so I typed
> 
> /fsck -y and was told it was a bad command.

Yes, because fsck resides in /sbin, not /.

> Then I typed \fsck -y and it worked. Naturally I have no idea why that worked
> nor what it did but it said everything was ok.

/sbin is probably in your path when you boot into single-user mode. The
backslash is an escape character, but apparently the shell found no proper
character to escape after it, so it was ignored.

That said, just typing things in single-user mode without knowing what
you're doing isn't a very good idea. You are root when you are in
single-user mode, and hence can wreak havoc on the file system if you don't
watch out. 

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