A recent discussion in Macworld’s Mac 911 forum revolves around whether fsck (filesystem consistency check) runs when the Mac first boots. Though the subject may be more appropriate for a bar bet, ...
It varies, all the dirty pages in the page cache that aren't on disk won't be seen by fsck and will be taken down as errors. The only way you want to run fsck on a mounted partition is if it's mounted ...
Yesterday, we asked for advice, short of erasing a disk, for solving a data corruption problem that occurred after a kernel panic was triggered by launching iTunes. We received numerous suggestions: ...
OrangeMicro PCI cards and 10.2.8 Yesterday we reported the saga of a user whose Mac would not work properly after installing the 10.2.8 update. The culprit apparently ended up being an Orange Micro ...
The Unix roots of Apple’s OS X means the operating system offers a range of performance and troubleshooting features every Mac user should get to know. Many of these tools require use of the Terminal ...
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