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, ...

I had a RHEL3 system that was having various I/O errors which I planned to rebuild. For academic purposes I wanted to see if "fsck -n -f -c /dev/hda1" would safely do a filesystem and surface check in ...