At 7:21 PM -0800 12/20/2008, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote: > > I have always, since moving to OSX, selected MacOS Extended (Not >Journaled)
Not a good choice. Journaling is THE main mechanism that HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) now depends upon to maintain much of its integrity across bad crashes. It is probably THE best enhancement to HFS ever. But you've turned it off... >and never use Spotlight. I find Cmd F to be good enough. If a spotlight index exists on the volume, then the Finder's search (cmd-F) uses it! So you DO use Spotlight. >Is Cmd F still Sherlock? No. >Does the: > >>sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/* >>sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/* >>sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/* > >fix the Un-mountable Volumes? No. Those commands only deal with the Spotlight indices on functioning mounted volumes. As to your un-mountable volumes... Sorry - Your subject was mds. The rest I took to be resolved background information. So to go back to your original post.... >[replaced monitor] and then the trouble really began with many KP's >and very slow response from Safari 3 and Camino 1.5. It would be helpful to see some of the kernal panic logs. Don't post them to this mailing list tho - zip 'em up and send them to me as an attachment. >I tried to do a SuperDuper BU to my other drive but that failed. To >keep this short all I tried has resulted in my having lost most of my >saved recent Email and all of my acquired Applications. Why did the backup fail - exactly what was the error message? >My immediate problem is the mds Process using all the CPU and the >curious fact that Disk Utility will neither Test, Repair or erase the >250G or the 420G drives and reports they cannot be Unmounted. I have >Shut down and restarted several time with no change in that report. Sometimes Spotlight gets a death grip on a volume. Very annoying. Do the "mdutil -i off" command to disable the indexing. Then try Disk Utility. If it still has problems, then try booting into Safe Mode (shift key held down) to run Disk Utility, or boot from your OS X DVD... HTH, - Dan. - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
