HT2433: Common System Error Messages: What they Mean and What Might Help Resolve the Problem

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Q: Verifying volume... Performing live verification. Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume. The volume name is Mac HD Checking extents overflow file. Checking catalog file. File record has hard link chain flag (id = 886631) File has incorrect number of links (i

I keep getting the same error message from disk utility within days of reformatting my hard drive.

Verifying volume...

Performing live verification.

Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.

The volume name is Mac HD

Checking extents overflow file.

Checking catalog file.

File record has hard link chain flag (id = 886631)

File has incorrect number of links (id = 886631)

(It should be 1 instead of 3)

Checking multi-linked files.

Invalid finder info for file hard link (id = 886631)

Checking catalog hierarchy.

Checking extended attributes file.

Overlapped extent allocation (id = 365368, /HFS+ Private Data/iNode365368)

Overlapped extent allocation (id = 886631, /Library/Application Support/Symantec/DeepSight/KnownSourceIPs.dat)

Checking volume bitmap.

Checking volume information.

Invalid volume free block count

(It should be 50559644 instead of 50573882)

The volume Mac HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.

Verify Failed.

The repair always seems to fix the problem, but it returns within days. Frustrated!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Jul 20, 2012 10:03 AM

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