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Re: Disk Checking under MacOS X

At 3:05 PM -0800 1/30/01, Hill Vic wrote:
>Damit!! I keep crashing my system...and everytime it
>takes forever to boot up !! How in the WORLD do I
>disable DISK CHECKING under Mac OS X!!


You don't. Otherwise you'll just keep crashing.

Mac OS X uses a disk cache model that makes it much more likely that a unexpected power event will cause inconsistent filesystem data. But it's usually inconsistent in a way that the disk checking can fix.

-pmb

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 >Disk Checking under MacOS X (From: Hill Vic <email@hidden>)



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