[nflug] drive integrity check

[Jesse Jarzynka]

Eric Benoit wrote:
> Does anyone know of a drive integrity check program on linux?  I may 
> be using Norton Ghost wrong, but I thought running the drive integrity 
> check would have picked up that a drive had 80 plus bad clusters 
> ...that keep growing, please forgive my ignorance, but I thought this 
> was the sign of a HDD on it's last leg.
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I'm not sure what you're doing, but fsck is for finding bad blocks. Try 
one of these, for whatever filesystem you are using:

fsck.cramfs   
fsck.ext2     
fsck.ext3     
fsck.jfs
fsck.msdos    
fsck.nfs      
fsck.reiser4  
fsck.reiserfs 
fsck.vfat     
fsck.xfs

You should have them all on your distro, or a rescue cd.

-- 
Jesse Jarzynka
Cyber Source
http://www.jessejoe.com/
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