OSX.2 Question

[GyroFX]

I know this Question has been answered in the past before but I forgot the procedure.

How do you fix a problem with the HD on startup again?

thanx

[Lz0]

10.2 will check your HD on startup and fix any problems.

But I'm sure that depends on the problem.

[sparkleytone]

hold down cmd+s on bootup to get into singleuser mode. once you are in single user mode run "fsck -y" until it finds no errors. then type "sync;sync;sync;reboot"

[mmcneil]

Originally posted by sparkleytone
"sync;sync;sync;reboot"
Now that's a real Unix user:D

Actually, I believe reboot includes sync, but it takes so little time to be safe:cool:

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by sparkleytone
hold down cmd+s on bootup to get into singleuser mode. once you are in single user mode run "fsck -y" until it finds no errors. then type "sync;sync;sync;reboot"

I've never been told by any literature anywhere to type the sync command before typing reboot. I have always just ran fsck -y until it came up clean then typed reboot. What does the sync command do anyhow?

[scem0]

Wow, this conversation is way over my head :D.

[gbojim]

Originally posted by MacBandit


What does the sync command do anyhow?

Sync flushes the disk write cache buffers to disk.

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by gbojim


Sync flushes the disk write cache buffers to disk.

Cool, thanks I will certainly do that in the future.

[mmcneil]

One of the reasons OS X is relatively stable is that Apple has implemented a periodic sync command in something called "update" - ran into it when I was exploring /etc/rc