[ntsc]

How can i do an fsck on a firewire drive? can i? or does it have to be the boot device?

[tooki]

For the boot drive, you can run fsck.

For other drives, just boot and run Disk Utility -- it's the same program inside.

(Of course, if you boot from CD, you can run Disk Utility on all your drives.)

tooki

[stuffedmonkey]

There are times when it has to be FSCK - I would like to know how to use it on a non boot drive as well. Sometimes you can't get a hosed drive to mount in the GUI....

[K++]

Code:
fsck /path/to/drive

thats if it mounted at all, otherwise I believe fsck will accept the /dev/device

[retroneo]

Unmounted drives appear in Disk Utility. Disk Utility automatically opens fsck for you (just look at it open up in "top" when you repair a disk)

Originally posted by stuffedmonkey:
There are times when it has to be FSCK - I would like to know how to use it on a non boot drive as well. Sometimes you can't get a hosed drive to mount in the GUI....