OsX 's friendly way of reminding you its still BSD underneath…

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splat-s to get slighty more info

whatever you do, dont run out of room on the system disk (unless you have a seperate swap partition). it can lead to random data corruption with versions upto 10.3.2

FIRST AID

• 01 Restart
• 02 Check/fix the filesystem
• 03 Make sure you're not running out of free space on the System volume
• 04 Repair permissions
• 05 Create a new user account, and see if the problem persists there
• 06 Clear system & user caches
• 07 Disable Application Enhancer, if you're running it
• 08 Startup in SafeBoot mode, and see if the problem persists there
• 09 Reset system firmware
• 10 Unplug all USB, Firewire devices except Apple mouse

MORE SERIOUS TROUBLESHOOTING

• 11 Reapply the latest combo updater
• 12 Run the Apple hardware diagnostic CD
• 13 Check the hard drive for bad blocks
• 14 Take out 3rd party RAM
• 15 Unplug 3rd Party PCI cards
• 16 Reset PMU
• 17 Archive and reinstall the OS
• 18 Reinstall the system from scratch
• 19 Send the machine back to Apple
• 20 Additional Notes

see http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2004011205473937 for more details…

• a decent how to, http://www.bombich.com/mactips/bootx.html
• the easier way,. using bootCD to automate most of the process http://www.charlessoft.com/

carboncopycloner http://www.bombich.com/