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Verify Startup Disk Question

  • December 5, 2014
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Hey all. I'm wanting to test feedback I would get from a policy for Verify Startup Disk via Self Service. However every Mac I turn to shows no errors because there are no errors.

Does anyone know of a way I can deliberately cause errors on a volume so I can test this?

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  • December 5, 2014

Maybe start a bunch of large, simultaneous file transfers to a usb volume, then unmount with "sudo umount -f /Volumes/USBdrive" before the transfers complete and then remount it and immediately kill the fsck_hfs process.


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  • December 8, 2014

disabling journaling on the volume might help also