There are several common ways people can verify file system integrity in OS X, including booting to Safe Mode, using Disk Utility, or running the 'fsck' tool. These options have had some people ...

Apple's macOS, through UNIX, provides a variety of tools to keep your drives healthy, with one of them being the fsck Terminal command. Here's how to use it. fsck, or "file system consistency check," ...

My late 2009 27" iMac is suddenly running fsck_hfs on every restart. I have a ton of files so this is taking about 6 minutes. I used verbose mode during restart to see this happening. It never finds ...

A recent discussion in Macworld’s Mac 911 forum revolves around whether fsck (filesystem consistency check) runs when the Mac first boots. Though the subject may be more appropriate for a bar bet, ...

The boot drive's format and partition structure can be checked both in the OS X graphical interface and in the Terminal. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

There are a few final useful utilities in Apple's Disk Utility you may not be aware of. Here's how to use them the continued exploration of the macOS tool. In the previous three installments of this ...

If all fs operations are atomic, checksummed etc, why are we waiting for an fsck tool? The only reason I can think of, would be single disk configurations, where there is no redundancy. The only ...