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 ...

I realize servers hardly ever get rebooted, but when they do it can either be a really long fsck or a shorter one. Rather than wait for my system with large disks to boot with an fsck I manually run ...

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 ...