{"id":2430,"date":"2003-03-01T15:26:44","date_gmt":"2003-03-01T15:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2003-03-01T15:26:44","modified_gmt":"2003-03-01T15:26:44","slug":"the_joy_of_disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2430","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Disk Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday after upgrading my G3 to OS X 10.2.4 I decided that I should run a disk scan on it.  I&#8217;d had a problem with my iTunes preferences getting completely lost and I like to run <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alsoft.com\/DiskWarrior\/\">DiskWarrior<\/a> on my drives around once a month (or every other month).  What started as a simple task grew when it started taking quite a while to run.  An hour went by, two, and then I looked up and it was looking for overlapped files (aka crosslinked files).  I cursed to myself and let it run.  15 hours later it finished up and everything seems to be running just fine, if not a little snappier than before.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t going to even write about it, but <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/2003\/03\/01#andTheAnswerIs\">Doc Searls<\/a> is having hard drive problems too so it was fresh in my mind.  He tried Drive 10, which from what I read may or may not have helped some.  When I had problems with my firewire drive and needed to fix it I did a bunch of research on disk tools and everything I read said DiskWarrior is the best thing out there.  So I don&#8217;t even bother with anything else and it has treated me very well.  This does bring up one gripe for me though.  Apple really needs to have a good fsck that comes with OS X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday after upgrading my G3 to OS X 10.2.4 I decided that I should run a disk scan on it. I&#8217;d had a problem with my iTunes preferences getting completely lost and I like to run DiskWarrior on my drives around once a month (or every other month). What started as a simple task grew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}