OS X 10.2.8 Chatter

[Jack Rodgers]

This AM when I booted up my drive began chattering like a popcorn 
machine. I installed the dot 8 update yesterday.

So, I fixed my permissions and very little needed repair. Then I 
restarted and held down Command+S and did the fsck repairs. Then I 
restarted with Diskwarrior 3 and rebuilt the directory.

No more chattering.

These three steps are a standard procedure for me after any system 
update. And probably not a bad thing to do every so often.

I was amused at watching Diskwarrior tell me how many checks it was 
making and the total exceeded two million. The only thing faster is 
George Bush spending tax money on Iraq.

One oddity, before rebuilding the directory DW told me there was not 
enough contiguous free space to save the 40K or so old directory. (I 
was brave and just ignored the save.) Perhaps I don't understand but 
that seems to indicate that my drive does not have 10 or so sectors 
that are contiguous which seems to say that I have a drive that really 
needs to be optimized. However, DW did not include an optimizer with v3.

---
http://j-walk.com/blog/ digested: BMG is testing a new form of DRM in 
the US. DRM prevents and restricts copy music files. The snag is that 
the discs are unprotected and can be copied ad infinitum. The 
developers are looking to fix this.   :)

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