Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2005-01-08 at 20:09 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Looking into running a periodic check on my partitions to check for bad sectors.
Use the SMART capabilities of your drive, for example using smartctl. It can be configured as a daemon and test your drives fully at specified times without closing or stopping the system. OK SMART enabled but I am still wondering about e2fsck.
My understanding is that although SMART will check the physical disk, e2fsck will check that the data is able to be written to the physical hdd, and of course according to the fs. So therefore eventhough I have SMART enabled, there might still be a case where data cannot be written to the hdd, resulting in a failed fsck on that partition on bootup. I would like to run the e2fsck command to prevent the failure of partition checking by fsck on bootup as reding the man page on fsck it does not seem up to working on a ext3 fs. -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================