-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2005-10-08 at 08:52 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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. His question included both. The badblock question was answered, which is why I referred to the fact that it was answered.
You are forgetting that badblocks can be marked/remapped at a lower level, idependent of the filesystem or OS. The HD itself can do it on its own. There is smartctl, an utility that amongst other things can fire up the SMART tests of the HD, done by the HD firmware: the test can run while the system is up and running with no interference (a slower disk response till it finishes). The manufacturer utility mainly checks this tests as well. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDR/uItTMYHG2NR9URArVkAKCQ5K60KUMGtW5xs1Eb4AoU/1YPYgCfaR4u 5iQoE+2Ty4MLLEj4W3K19ms= =WNmr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----