There are several common ways people can verify file system integrity in OS X, including booting to Safe Mode, using Disk Utility, or running the 'fsck' tool. These options have had some people ...

Apple's macOS, through UNIX, provides a variety of tools to keep your drives healthy, with one of them being the fsck Terminal command. Here's how to use it. fsck, or "file system consistency check," ...

The boot drive's format and partition structure can be checked both in the OS X graphical interface and in the Terminal. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

I had just finished copying some files from another computer on my home network... the thing hangs when I try to fast user switch to another user (nothing would get it out of it's funk-even waiting)..