Verify & Repair Disk Permissions VS. Verify and Repair Disk

Is there a document that explains the differences in these two actions?
Thanks.

Hi Trevor,
Repair Permissions and Verify or Repair disk are two separate processes.
Repair Permissions is explained here.
Verify/Repair Disk is explained here.
-mj
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