Looking into running a periodic check on my partitions to check for bad sectors. Reading the man pages on fsck and e2fsck I decided that e2fsck was the better of the two for this purpose and therefore will use the command: #> e2fsck -ccfpvC 0 The above command will as per the man page: e2fsck -cc This option causes e2fsck to run the badblocks(8) program If this option is specified twice, then the bad block scan will be done using a non-destructive read-write test. -f Force checking even if the file system seems clean. -p Automatically repair ("preen") the file system without any questions. -v Verbose mode on -C 0 This option causes e2fsck to write completion information to the specified file descriptor so that the progress of the filesystem check can be monitored. This option is typically used by programs which are running e2fsck. If the file descriptor specified is 0, e2fsck will print a completion bar as it goes about its business. This requires that e2fsck is running on a video console or terminal. Do I specify a double option(-c) as above? Is this advised over a single c ie which is better to detect fs errors and repair them? -- 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 ========================================================================