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As I do weekly, I ran the "Verify Disk" function of Mac OS X's Disk Utility.app this morning. For the first time, I received the message Volume needs repair.

Since this was the primary volume (startup disk), the "Repair Disk" button was grayed out, and, of course, I didn't have a clue where the Mac OS X install disc is. Not sure how to fix it, I turned to Google. Turns out the repair process is quite easy:

1. Turn off the computer.
2. Restart in single-user mode by pressing the power button to turn the computer on and immediately pressing and holding the Command (Apple) key and the "s" key.
3. At the command-line prompt, type: /sbin/fsck -fy and press Return.
4. fsck will run through five "phases." If it makes any repairs, it will display ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****If you see this message, repeat step 3 until you see ** The volume (name_of_volume) appears to be OK
5. At the prompt, type reboot and press Return.

References

• Mac OS X: How to start up in single-user or verbose mode
• Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck