i have a dual 1.8 GHz power PC g5. a couple weeks ago twice the fan
kicked on loudly, someone told me it was a system chrash and to do some
maintenance, i zapped the PRAM and then i rebooted holding down
command-s, at the prompt i typed in
/sbin/fsck-yf     -  the fan has been humming loudly for 4hrs now - is
this normal?
bottom 2 lines on the screen read:
-sh: /sbin/fsck-yf: No such file or directory
localhost:/ root# /sbin/fsck-yf

should i just type in 'reboot' ??  now
thanks!

finwicke@earthlink.net wrote:
> i have a dual 1.8 GHz power PC g5. a couple weeks ago twice the fan
> kicked on loudly, someone told me it was a system chrash and to do some
> maintenance, i zapped the PRAM and then i rebooted holding down
> command-s, at the prompt i typed in
> /sbin/fsck-yf     -  the fan has been humming loudly for 4hrs now - is
> this normal?
> bottom 2 lines on the screen read:
> -sh: /sbin/fsck-yf: No such file or directory
> localhost:/ root# /sbin/fsck-yf
> 
> should i just type in 'reboot' ??  now

Reboot. And next time type /sbin/fsck -fy. The space is important, as
is the "f" before the "y."

Davoud

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In article <011220052336040851%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net>
wrote:

> finwicke@earthlink.net wrote:
> > i have a dual 1.8 GHz power PC g5. a couple weeks ago twice the fan
> > kicked on loudly, someone told me it was a system chrash and to do some
> > maintenance, i zapped the PRAM and then i rebooted holding down
> > command-s, at the prompt i typed in
> > /sbin/fsck-yf     -  the fan has been humming loudly for 4hrs now - is
> > this normal?
> > bottom 2 lines on the screen read:
> > -sh: /sbin/fsck-yf: No such file or directory
> > localhost:/ root# /sbin/fsck-yf
> > 
> > should i just type in 'reboot' ??  now
> 
> Reboot. And next time type /sbin/fsck -fy. The space is important, as
> is the "f" before the "y."

Actually, the -yf can be in either order.  In fact I believe the single
user startup screen says -yf.

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Jerry Kindall:
> Actually, the -yf can be in either order.

OK.

> In fact I believe the single user startup screen says -yf.

It says -fy on all six of my OS X Macs.

Davoud

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In article <021220050036358703%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net>
wrote:

> Jerry Kindall:
> > Actually, the -yf can be in either order.
> 
> OK.
> 
> > In fact I believe the single user startup screen says -yf.
> 
> It says -fy on all six of my OS X Macs.

Shows you when I stopped reading it.

Actually, it used to say fsck -y, before they added journaling to the
OS and you had to add the f.  I think that's why I got in the habit of
doing it -yf instead of the other way 'round.

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On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 22:02:22 -0600, finwicke@earthlink.net wrote
(in article <1133493898.380177.199380@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):

> i have a dual 1.8 GHz power PC g5. a couple weeks ago twice the fan
> kicked on loudly, someone told me it was a system chrash and to do some
> maintenance, i zapped the PRAM and then i rebooted holding down
> command-s, at the prompt i typed in
> /sbin/fsck-yf     -  the fan has been humming loudly for 4hrs now - is
> this normal?
> bottom 2 lines on the screen read:
> -sh: /sbin/fsck-yf: No such file or directory
> localhost:/ root# /sbin/fsck-yf
> 
> should i just type in 'reboot' ??  now
> thanks!
> 

He-he. And all I enter is -f. Started with journaling. Am ignorant to have 
assumed when told to do -f that meant in place of -y. Whatever. Works the 
same apparently as -yf and -fy. It's the fing that counts.

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In article <1133493898.380177.199380@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 finwicke@earthlink.net wrote:

> i have a dual 1.8 GHz power PC g5. a couple weeks ago twice the fan
> kicked on loudly, someone told me it was a system chrash and to do some
> maintenance, i zapped the PRAM and then i rebooted holding down
> command-s, at the prompt i typed in
> /sbin/fsck-yf     -  the fan has been humming loudly for 4hrs now - is
> this normal?
> bottom 2 lines on the screen read:
> -sh: /sbin/fsck-yf: No such file or directory
> localhost:/ root# /sbin/fsck-yf
> 
> should i just type in 'reboot' ??  now
> thanks!

No, separate the command form its flags (e.g. '/sbin/fsck -yf').  Note 
the space.

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finwicke@earthlink.net writes:

>i have a dual 1.8 GHz power PC g5. a couple weeks ago twice the fan
>kicked on loudly, someone told me it was a system chrash and to do some
>maintenance, i zapped the PRAM and then i rebooted holding down
>command-s, at the prompt i typed in
>/sbin/fsck-yf     -  the fan has been humming loudly for 4hrs now - is
>this normal?
>bottom 2 lines on the screen read:
>-sh: /sbin/fsck-yf: No such file or directory
>localhost:/ root# /sbin/fsck-yf
>
>should i just type in 'reboot' ??  now

When I had a similar problem, I did as above.  At that final prompt,
type ctrl-d  - that will start the machine.  In my case, the fan
then went off.

If you already typed 'reboot' and it disn't turn the fan off, repeat
the sequence and try the ctrl-d (which continues the startup).

 -Stephen
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