[ale] hard drive integrity

Jim jcphil at mindspring.com
Thu Aug 8 14:39:42 EDT 2002


Uhh...that's exactly what happens when you run e2fsck with the -c option. 
Check the man page if you don't believe me.

On Thursday 08 August 2002 02:23 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> Thanks for the info, I'll check it out.  Next, I thought there was a way
> to mark sections of a disk bad in order to use the 'good' portion of the
> disk.  Anyone know about this possibility?
>
> Danny Cox wrote:
> > Geoffrey,
> >
> > On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 10:41, Geoffrey wrote:
> >>anyone know of any tools that can verify the integrity of a hard drive?
> >>  I know you can check for bad blocks via mkfs, but I'm curious if
> >>anyone knows of any other linux based tools.
> >
> > 	mkfs calls badblocks, which has a man page.  You can specify read-only,
> > destructive-write, or non-destructive-read-write modes.  Notice the
> > warning if you're gonna want to use it's output with e2fsck later,
> > though.
> >
> > 	Start it, and stand well back ;-)


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