Comments on: Sneaky hfs_fsck post reboot http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/07/10/sneaky-hfs_fsck-post-reboot/ the personal blog of Stuart Colville covering modern web development techniques and best practices Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:41:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mark Norman Francis http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/07/10/sneaky-hfs_fsck-post-reboot/#comment-51161 Mark Norman Francis Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:11:18 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/07/10/sneaky-hfs_fsck-post-reboot/#comment-51161 This is actually a very <em>bad feature of OS X. Filesystems should be checked before the system boots - regardless of how clever your journaling is. For example, my /Users area is in a separate partition on my home Mac. If it crashes and restarts, it can let me log in _before_ /Users/norm is available, so I get a default profile. Scared the crap out of me first time it happened, before I realised what was going on. This is actually a very bad feature of OS X. Filesystems should be checked before the system boots - regardless of how clever your journaling is.

For example, my /Users area is in a separate partition on my home Mac. If it crashes and restarts, it can let me log in _before_ /Users/norm is available, so I get a default profile. Scared the crap out of me first time it happened, before I realised what was going on.

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