Re: Disk First Aid running on every boot

In article <vj525a$18c4$1@dont-email.me>,
 super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-12-08 19:58:35 +0000, Knezzen said:
 

In article <vintageapplemac-3011240518390001@192.168.1.134>,
 vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) wrote:
 

As subject, every time I boot this machine up lately the Disk First Aid
alert appears telling me the computer didn't shut down properly and then
it scans for errors. Thing is, I shut the computer down correctly every
time!
 
Machine is PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25Ghz, OS9.2.2, hard drive is a 256GB SSD
hooked to a Sonnet Tempo SATA PCI card.
 
Any ideas why this keeps happening? It has done it before in the same way
over the years, there'll be a period where it boots fine and then a period
where it always runs Disk First Aid, and then it'll go back to booting
fine for a time for no rhyme or reason... I have a relatively fresh
install on the machine now, a couple of months old, and it was booting
straight into OS9 for a while before this started happening again. I have
done no recent software installs that correlate with it beginning, either.
 
I can disable Disk First Aid from ever running at start-up, is that
recommended or cautioned against?

 
From my experience I started getting this *all the time* when I moved
from rotating storage to SSD's in my machines about 10 years ago or so.
 
Something about how a volume is flagged as "dirty" in Mac OS 9.2.2 is
problematic when using more modern storage solutions. I tend to just
disable the boot check in the "General Controls" control panel and keep
an eye on my volumes with Disk First Aid twice a year or so.
 
-Theo

 
Wonder if you could just compress Disk First Aid into a self-extracting
archive and use it when needed, that's what I do with apps that don't
behave like I want them to. If it froze the machine on start up for
some reason though that wouldn't work.

It's not really using the main Disk First Aid application, it's a on
boot control of the filesystem independant of it. Running Disk First Aid
manually works fine, and the on boot check runs fine. The problem is
that it keeps appearing every boot for some reason, despite the system
shutting down correctly.

-Theo