News: “Why is there a progress bar when my Mac is starting up?”

Why is there a progress bar when my Mac is starting up? on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Topics: MacBook, MacBook Pro, Disk Utility

“Filed under: Odds and ends, TUAW TipsUpdate: As several of our commenters pointed out, the OS is probably running the fsck utility in the background to repair directory problems, while showing the progress bar to the end user so they know there’s…”