I'm running Panther; in the shell, as instructed in a number of documents
about how to take care of the file system, I type "fsck -y". Oddly enough,
nothing at all happens - no error, no pause, no activity, nothing - I just
get the next prompt back immediately. Anyone have any ideas why?
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Mike Levin
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In article <BC063458.62BF%mlevin77@comcast.net>,
Michael Levin <mlevin77@comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm running Panther; in the shell, as instructed in a number of documents
> about how to take care of the file system, I type "fsck -y". Oddly enough,
> nothing at all happens - no error, no pause, no activity, nothing - I just
> get the next prompt back immediately. Anyone have any ideas why?

Try using:

fsck -f

In article <BC063458.62BF%mlevin77@comcast.net>,
Michael Levin <mlevin77@comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm running Panther; in the shell, as instructed in a number of documents
> about how to take care of the file system, I type "fsck -y". Oddly enough,
> nothing at all happens - no error, no pause, no activity, nothing - I just
> get the next prompt back immediately. Anyone have any ideas why?

Your hard drive is probably journaled now. Try substituting -f for -y
and see if that works.
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