[ale] hard drive integrity

[jcphil at mindspring.com (Jim)]

On Thursday 08 August 2002 10:41 am, 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.

You can also run e2fsck with the -c option. You might also add -y, unless you 
want to click "yes" a thousand times. This option takes a long time to run. 
Go have lunch while it's checking.


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