name@Portia.Stanford.EDU (tony cooper) (02/02/89)
This subject was briefly mentioned some time ago. Disk First Aid can or should be used for routine maintenance on your hard disks. It repairs minor damage and what this means for most users I guess is that it reclaims disk space. On a 40Mb hard disk my last three uses of DFA have reclaimed 21, 7, and 8781 lost Kilobytes. Dare I be bold enough to say that DFA should be used after every system crash? At least in UNIX this has to be done since it is dangerous to use a corrupted file system. Maybe the kind of corruption the Mac experiences is safe in this regard. Hint: Just before starting the scan of the disk in DFA do a command-s to bring up a second window that shows what DFA is doing (this hint was in a previous posting).