-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2006-10-18 at 10:27 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
AFAIK, fsck is geared to filesystem integrity checking, while badblocks is geared to physical device checking. If you suspect the physical device might be a problem, then you want to thoroughly test that physical device. Naturally, do it while it is unmounted.
Yes and no. On ext2/3 partitions, the -c parameter makes it call "badblocks": -c This option causes e2fsck to run the badblocks(8) program to find any blocks which are bad on the filesystem, and then marks them as bad by adding them to the bad block inode. If this option is specified twice, then the bad block scan will be done using a non-destructive read-write test. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFNpyEtTMYHG2NR9URAmJuAJ9hIF0Z7owqhYW/jvD+jrebpSFqDACeKC0J QH9XXROCOvbyDeKAaf1HdoU= =4C1R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----