Fsck you, stupid G5!!

Kingsly

macrumors 68040

Original poster

• Dec 19, 2007

• #1

I need to fsck a computer from Terminal. I'm booted off of a firewire disk and want terminal to target the internal (sick) Mac HD.

I'm afraid /sbin/fsck -fy will fsck up the FW drive... and I don't want that for obvious reasons. 😎

 

xUKHCx

Administrator emeritus

• Dec 19, 2007

• #2

Why don't you boot in single user mode (s on start up) and run fsck that way

 

Kingsly

macrumors 68040

Original poster

• Dec 19, 2007

• #3

OF password is in my way. 😱

 

MacsRgr8

macrumors G3

• Dec 20, 2007

• #4

Why not run Disk Utility if you're booted from the ext. FW HD anyway?

BTW.. IIRC you can "remove" the OF passwd by altering some hardware like RAM orso.
You could try to remove (or add) RAM, and boot in Single User Mode then.