On 08/10/05, Kurt Wall
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:11:33PM -0400, Jerry Feldman took 28 lines to write:
On Friday 07 October 2005 3:22 pm, Bruce Samhaber wrote:
Is there a utility to check a harddisk integrity and to perhaps block off bad sections of the disk? I have been looking but have not found it in the SUSE books and Help Centre. I thought that I had seen this before. Something in the basic bootup? Yes. As was mentioned, badblocks is one utility, but the main utility is fsck. fsck is called everytime a system transitions from single user to multi-user (eg. everytime you boot essentially). Each filesystem (eg. ext3, Reiserfs) maintains its own set of utilities that are called by fsck.
You can do a man fsck, man fsck.ext3, man fsck.reiserfs (eg reiserfsck).
Perniciously incorrect. fsck checks the integrity of filesystems. It does not identify and mark bad blocks on the disk, which is what the OP wanted.
Kurt -- E Pluribus Unix
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