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Volume header keeps needing "minor" repair

  • 19-06-2007 6:01pm
    #1
    Sad Professor
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    At least once a week I need to reboot via the cd to repair my start-up disk. This fixes the problem for a few days before I check and have to do it again. Disk Utility reports the problem as "minor" and I haven't experienced any problems with the hd otherwise. It boots fine and the xp/bootcamp partition never has any errors.

    The last time I used Diskwarrior to repair the volume and rebuild the directory. It's report described the problem as "Incorrect values". Is it possible some app I'm running is corrupting the volume header? Does anyone else have this problem? Any ideas what could be causing it?

    I recall back in 10.3 Apple used to say to ignore these "minor repair" errors as they were caused by journaling but I'm not sure if that still applies to 10.4.


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  • #2
    babypink
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    what apps have you running?


  • #3
    Sad Professor
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    Most of the time: Camino, Mail, iTunes, Speed Download, Transmission, Adium, Quicksilver, Growl. I've heard Backup programs can sometimes cause damage to the volume header but I haven't run any recently.

    I rebooted via Techtools and did a complete surface scan, volume scan, everything, etc. It didn't report a single error but Disk Utility is still saying "minor repair" needed. I couldn't be bothered booting from a cd again so I'm just going to ignore it for now.


  • #4
    Sad Professor
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    Problem fixed (I hope). Seems it was just a text encoding problem. Two Apple pdf files belonging to iMovie and Garageband were the culprits. I've put them both out of their misery. :D


  • #5
    babypink
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    fingers crossed - i'm running pretty much the same background apps - except camino and speed download, without any hassles in the slightest


  • #6
    Sad Professor
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    I've narrowed the problem down to Voodoopad. I repair, reboot, verify, all is ok. Then I launch Voodoopad, verify again, f**ked again!

    It's fine on my ibook however so I don't know.


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  • #7
    Inspector Gadget
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    This may be a dumb question, but have you checked the integrity of the disk itself? (Look at the SMART data, run it through the manufacturer's diagnostics if you've got a PC handy, etc.) Could that be the problem?

    Maybe I'm coming at this from the wrong background (I'm a Mac owner and user but have more experience with the evil forces) but it makes no sense to me that something like Voodoopad (from the rough idea I've gathered after some quick googling) should need to fiddle with low-level disk-related stuff?

    Gadget


  • #8
    Sad Professor
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    The SMART status was the first thing I checked. I do it regularly since I'm paranoid about the hd failing. I've also done every possible test and the disk itself is fine, it was just a minor problem with the volume header. The Voodoopad thing doesn't make sense to me either but it was definitely causing the problem.

    The only similar issue I could find was with a old version of Photoshop which produced the same error in Diskwarrior. In that case it was loading a file into memory which contained a glyph/symbol that was conflicting with the filesystem's Unicode standard. This was then getting written into volume header causing more files to become corrupted.

    Or something like that :).

    I've since updated to the latest version of Voodoopad and deleted old prefs. I'm going to wait a few days before testing it again, just to be sure something else isn't causing the problem


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