24 Mar
2005
24 Mar
'05
15:18
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 20:05, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Konstantinos Georgokitsos wrote:
<snip> or something. BTW, How do I now check the old disks if they are ok? Any suggestions for tools?
<snip>
badblocks, contained in the e2fsprogs package, can do an exhaustive non-destructive test of the entire surface of your drives. See also man e2fsck. I am not aware of any similar utils for other file systems.
Try the smartctl command from the smartmontools package. PaulH -- Paul Hewlett (Linux #359543) Email:`echo az.oc.evitcaten@ttelweh | rev` Tel: +27 21 852 8812 Cel: +27 72 719 2725 Fax: +27 86 672 0563 --