{"id":7814,"date":"2005-11-04T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/11\/04\/diskutil-repairvolume-on-boot\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:46","slug":"diskutil-repairvolume-on-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/11\/04\/diskutil-repairvolume-on-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;diskutil repairVolume&#8217; on boot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Cross posted to <lj user=c0nsumer> and <lj user=macosx>&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone here know how to have OS X (10.4.3) do the equivilent of a &#8216;diskutil repairVolume&#8217; on reboot, before the OS is up? I&#8217;ve got a machine I don&#8217;t (currently) have physical access to which needs the root disk repaired so I can&#8217;t boot the install CD and run the check that way.<\/p>\n<p>Also, anyone remember the issue with rsyncing to external volumes that I&#8217;ve been incessantly complaining about? I&#8217;m now thinking that I&#8217;ve got an issue with the <em>source<\/em> data, which was somehow manifesting itself in errors with rsync being unable to find destination files after they were written. There&#8217;s some weird inconsistancy here. Or maybe I was reading the rsync errors backwards? Hrm.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, any idea how to make diskutil do my bidding? I know how I&#8217;d do it under Windows, but OS X doesn&#8217;t seem to support this here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Cross posted to and &#8230;] Does anyone here know how to have OS X (10.4.3) do the equivilent of a &#8216;diskutil repairVolume&#8217; on reboot, before the OS is up? I&#8217;ve got a machine I don&#8217;t (currently) have physical access to which needs the root disk repaired so I can&#8217;t boot the install CD and run\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13815,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814\/revisions\/13815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}