Jaime, you're right, this is problem. Be careful, however, or
someone will call you out for being a curmudgeon. ;)
Unlikely, as he wasn't being one.
nice post Jaime.
To illustrate the usefulness of reading the lists as regularly as
possible...
Today I had a problem with a student home directory volume with a
corrupt HFS+ journal. For policy reasons this volume isn't backed up,
and so I was perfectly within my rights to just wipe it and start
again, as the Apple tools don't let you disable/enable journalling
until a disk is mounted. If it's not mounting because of the journal,
then well...
But you know, it's the last week of session and I like my students.
A few directories or files being corrupt really isn't a stress for
this volume. From reading the list a while ago I remember Rob
Middleton made a post about how he managed to hex edit the volume
header to flip the journal bit.
Tried it, repaired the disk, re-enabled journalling, and all is
happy. I probably wouldn't have even thought to do this if I hadn't
been reading the list...
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Nigel Kersten [Senior Technical Officer]
College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Australia.
CRICOS Provider Code: 00098G
