I first noticed that fsck_hfs
was running, taking up 50-75% of a CPU, yesterday. It continues to run today.
Running ps -ax
shows that it is doing /sbin/fsck_hfs -f -n -x -E /dev/disk3
. Only problem: I don’t think I have a /dev/disk3
.
- Why is it running?
- Will it ever finish?
- Can I
kill
it?
- What is
/dev/disk3
? Could it be my Time Machine volume, which is not mounted at the moment?
System Info: MacBook Pro (2008). It has two disks installed—the internal disk (/dev/disk1
) and a PC Card SSD (/dev/disk0
, surprisingly). It connects to a remote Time Machine volume attached to an Airport Extreme base station.
fsck_hfs
(similar command line to the OP) with basically zero network traffic (~5 packets per second) and I think disk IO Ops/s were low as well but I wasn't checking that as much. No apparent change in progress was reported in the GUI (that I noticed) and then it just completed successfully.