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- From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: longish "loading from disk"
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.153545.4741@cubetech.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:35:45 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.195555.3518@arizona.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul21.195555.3518@arizona.edu> d_mc%McCube.tucson.az.us@arizona.edu (Don McCollam) writes:
- >Recently, my system has occasionally displayed the "loading from disk"
- >message for quite a long time. Why would the time for "loading from disk"
- >vary - sometimes only a short time and others quite a long time? Advice
- >appreciated.
-
- Althougth it's been a long time since I booted in "Welcome to
- Macintosh" mode, it's probably checking the disk. If the filesystem
- isn't properly sync'ed on shutdown, it will check the filesystem on
- boot-up...
-
-
- andrew
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