AppleJack
This one I got from
Greg....
AppleJack for doing UNIX fsck, Fix Permissions, etc.
The "real" way to do an install of an update, with all the Unix you can handle! :-)
(This email came from a fellow Systems Engineer)
I, like many of you, have had some interesting experiences/feedback from customers with updates over the past year.
I wonder if the filing system is in a good state when I hear or see these problems. I mention this because I have found an awesome tool which I use before and/or after a major install and it seems when it is used I never hear of problems with installers. AppleJack is a freeware shell script which has an nice installer. Basically you can boot in single user mode and then type applejack. It will then perform and fsck, Fix permissions, Clear cache etc... All in the correct order. and all menu driven (well ACSII menus :-)
Works like a champ and is much faster and more through that booting with a CD and running Disk utility. I recommend it to all my Higher Ed Sys Admins. I have noticed on several occasions when running AppleJack where fsck found a problem it couldn't fix (Overlapping files typically).
At that point I ran Norton or Disk Warrior or other favourite tool to fix that problem. (BTW I would be interested to hear or see articles which compares these tools and their abilities to deal with serious filing system issues in HFS+. I only use Norton because it's site licensed and not sure I trust it 100%)
Anyway AppleJack is an great tool. Check it out at http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
I love it almost as much as Mikes Carbon Copy Cloner, Renauds Batchmod....
AppleJack for doing UNIX fsck, Fix Permissions, etc.
The "real" way to do an install of an update, with all the Unix you can handle! :-)
(This email came from a fellow Systems Engineer)
I, like many of you, have had some interesting experiences/feedback from customers with updates over the past year.
I wonder if the filing system is in a good state when I hear or see these problems. I mention this because I have found an awesome tool which I use before and/or after a major install and it seems when it is used I never hear of problems with installers. AppleJack is a freeware shell script which has an nice installer. Basically you can boot in single user mode and then type applejack. It will then perform and fsck, Fix permissions, Clear cache etc... All in the correct order. and all menu driven (well ACSII menus :-)
Works like a champ and is much faster and more through that booting with a CD and running Disk utility. I recommend it to all my Higher Ed Sys Admins. I have noticed on several occasions when running AppleJack where fsck found a problem it couldn't fix (Overlapping files typically).
At that point I ran Norton or Disk Warrior or other favourite tool to fix that problem. (BTW I would be interested to hear or see articles which compares these tools and their abilities to deal with serious filing system issues in HFS+. I only use Norton because it's site licensed and not sure I trust it 100%)
Anyway AppleJack is an great tool. Check it out at http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
I love it almost as much as Mikes Carbon Copy Cloner, Renauds Batchmod....
Posted: Tue - November 11, 2003 at 06:41 PM
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