Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Mumia W.
On 09/17/2006 07:15 PM, J Merritt wrote: What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in Debian? - Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com.

RE: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Roman Laubinger
--- J Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in Debian? Hi, you are looking for fsck -- man fsck for details, supported filesystems etc. Cheers, Roman

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/17/2006 08:20 PM, J Merritt wrote: What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in Debian? Adding to others' suggestions, look at smartmontools: $ apt-cache show smartmontools Description:

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 17 September 2006 17:15, J Merritt wrote: What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in Debian? fsck for filesystem integrity, and badblocks for bad blocks. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread J Merritt
Ron Johnson wrote:fsck (FileSystemChecK) is the canonical tool. - - - -Best done on an unmounted filesystem, so if you need to run itagainst / you should boot into a Live CD and run it from there.Is this a general question, or do you have a possibly bad disk?Oftentimes, when I boot

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/18/06 18:05, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 17 September 2006 17:15, J Merritt wrote: What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in Debian?

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/18/06 20:10, J Merritt wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: fsck (FileSystemChecK) is the canonical tool. - - - - Best done on an unmounted filesystem, so if you need to run it against / you should boot into a Live CD and run it from

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 17 September 2006 17:15, J Merritt wrote: What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in Debian? fsck for filesystem integrity, and badblocks for bad blocks. and

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 18 September 2006 16:46, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 17 September 2006 17:15, J Merritt wrote: What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in Debian? fsck

Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-17 Thread J Merritt
What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in Debian? Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.

Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility

2006-09-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/17/06 19:15, J Merritt wrote: What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in Debian? fsck (FileSystemChecK) is the canonical tool. - -