Hi all, There was a discussion of HFS and Norton on the Mac OSX listgroup a few months ago, where folks had seen lots of error messages from Norton even though OSX was running just fine. Many of us ran fsck and looked for the trouble without success. The conclusion in that group seemed to be that the problem was Norton, not HFS or OSX. It may be the same here. -- Tom Dove On Tuesday, July 3, 2001, at 04:51 AM, nicola moretti wrote:
Joss Winn wrote:
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:45:21PM +0200, nicola moretti wrote:
Joss Winn wrote:
I have noticed that when I boot up my Mac and run Norton, it shows a lot of 'Major Errors' with my HFS volume that I use to share files with Linux. I am wondering if these really are 'major errors' in Linux, or if it is just a Norton quirk. Even with the errors, I seem to be able to use the HFS volumes with no problems in Linux.
thanks Joss -- http://www.josswinn.org
What kind of errors? Norton's "serious" errors often are very, very minor (if errors at all)... And what version (OS and Norton)?
regards nicola
Hi Nicola,
Sorry I can't reproduce the errors immediately because I have just fixed them, but I am using Norton 5.x and Mac OS 9.1
thank you joss -- http://www.josswinn.org
Joss,
to avoid tons of false alarms, you may try this: - (use hfsutils as per Olaf's advice; thanks Olaf!) - check that you have Norton 5.0.3. Update if not... - In Disk Doctor's Preferences (General pane), UNcheck these checkboxes: "Check for defective media" (completely useless, imho: other tools can diagnose a defective disk much better), "Check Files" (who cares about dates, FinderInfo bits, resource forks? Certainly not for files coming from Linux), "Check System folder" (another useless feature). This will also make checking partitions MUCH faster.
regards nicola