Fsck you, stupid G5!!

[Kingsly]

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]

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

 

[Kingsly]

OF password is in my way.

 

[MacsRgr8]

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.