In article <madwen->,
Madwen <> wrote:
> Well most everything seems to be progressing fairly well with Panther
> (except printing) and now I am trying to get up to speed on more than
> the basic level of operation. I looked at the help files and a book but
> I am still unclear on the whole Disk Utility thing and the differences
> in HD maintenance from OS 9.
>
> 1) I am forced to use Classic regularly for Word Perfect. Is it
> adequate for me to use Disk Utility now and forget about Disk First Aid
> from 9.2.2? I don't have to run both do I?
They're all fixing the same drive. Don't bother with Disk First Aid
anymore.
>
> 2) I ran the permission repair thing and noticed there was a separate
> menu choice for OS 9 permissions. Does it need to be run separately?
> (This is so confusing). Can someone steer me to a discussion of the
> permission repair thing so I an understand what it is?
"Fix OS 9 Permissions" corrects the unix permissions on your Classic
System Folder so your account can use it. If you can already launch
Classic, you don't need to do this. Sounds like a one-time or very
infrequent operation.
>
> 3) If I need to run Disk Warrior, should I run it from OS 9 until DW is
> updated for Panther?
Run DiskWarrior 2.x from OS 9 or DiskWarrior 3 from OS X. Which do you
have? The safest bet is to run DiskWarrior from its own bootable CD.
DiskWarrior 3 will not harm anything as long as it's started up in 10.2
(like on its CD).
Running DiskWarrior 2 will disable journaling on your hard drive.
>
> 4) Can I run Disk Utility from one of my external FW boot drives (after
> they announce it is safe to use them again)? Or can it only be run from
> the Panther installer disk?
Go for it. When repairing the disk directories the only stipulation is
you can't be booted (or running Disk Utility) from the disk being
repaired.
This differs from when you repair permissions you should be booted from
the disk you're repairing. (because it will use the boot drive's
installer receipts).
>
> 5) When setting up a RAID (mirror), it said that you usually cannot use
> the boot drive. Does this me that you are saving your stuff to three
> different drives at once? Is it a decent option for backign up or not?
RAID constructs one logical volume out of any number of physical drives.
If you save a file once to a mirrored volume, its data will be written
out to multiple drives but that's all behind the scenes.
I'm not sure what you mean about the boot drive. Combining a drive into
a RAID involves erasing it, so you wouldn't want to erase your current
boot drive. I think only very recent Macs can boot from these software
RAIDs but I'm not sure about that.
>
> 6) If I am using 2 externals as an array, can I backup my iBook on one
> of those disks or can't I put anything else on them?
Put anything you like on it. How exactly are you planning on backing up
your iBook?
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....Paul McGrane
pmcg.comeuppance.org
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