zigzagry

in light of my recent post in the troubleshooting forum I was thinking this might be a good idea.

I'd love to see a long string of 'must know' terminal commands on here. I'm still very new to the concept but have learned quite a bit by digging around other sites and now I don't know how I lived without osx.

I know there are many people here who have a wealth of knowledge regarding Terminal use.

Share it please.

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zigzagry

allow me to be the first

disktool -e disk1 (cd drive)
disktool -e disk2 (zip drive)

this is the command to eject your disks.

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sinjin

After a crash (or for good measure); upon start-up hold down "apple + s" until your monitor begins filling with text. After the text finishes spilling out type
</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">/sbin/fsck -y</pre>[/QUOTE]Repeat until no errors are reported, then type
</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">exit</pre>[/QUOTE]to return to normal booting. You've now repaired your filesystem.

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sinjin - This only works on non-journalled drives, but if you change the command to fsck -fy it will check it anyway.

Other fun terminal command thread found previously on ehMac:
Terminal Commands

You can also try out (use man pages to find out more; in Terminal type in man command) :
cal -> Shows a calendar.
banner -> Make a banner.
smbclient -M destination -U username -> Send Messenger/WinPopUp messages to Windows computers on your network. Destination is the computer name, and Username is your name (or whatever you want, eg. God.)

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kps

It's not always that the CD or DVD drive will be disk1, on my machine it's disk2 because I have a second internal drive...so before tearassing around the terminal unmounting disks and partitions one should run the df command and find out for sure.

Output of df [no option flags]

</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk1s9 52424656 22064576 29848080 43% /
devfs 205 205 0 100% /dev
fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev
&lt;volfs&gt; 1024 1024 0 100% /.vol
/dev/disk0s9 20969696 8033216 12936480 38% /Volumes/Darcy
/dev/disk0s10 57186800 13422344 43764456 23% /Volumes/Trish
/dev/disk1s10 6290856 613624 5677232 10% /Volumes/OS9
/dev/disk1s11 2096880 32872 2064008 2% /Volumes/swap
/dev/disk1s12 59279088 50587584 8691504 85% /Volumes/masterX
automount -nsl [314] 0 0 0 100% /Network
automount -fstab [322] 0 0 0 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [322] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
/dev/disk2s0 926348 926348 0 100% /Volumes/PCD3637</pre>[/QUOTE]In my case, the DVD drive is disk2s0, so the command would be:

disktool -e disk2s0

and there's always more than one way to "skin a cat" in unix...

diskutil eject disk2s0

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A good place to start for anyone wanting to brush up on unix terminal commands and the basics of how to, check out the following:

www.macinstruct.com/tutorials/unix/index.html

You can also find part 1, 2, and 3 on the october, november and december 2001 macaddict disk's. These will only run in classic though.

Enjoy!