Linux-Misc Digest #201, Volume #20 Fri, 14 May 99 06:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Gnu make question ($$@) (Michael Powe)
Can't get AVI's to work with xanim (Chris Wilson)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522) (Jon Skeet)
Modem Setup Help (Jason Bond)
Real Audio does not work. Why? (Chris Wilson)
Re: Bash Question (Michael Powe)
Tweaking for a high-end server? (Jon Skeet)
Re: Getting PPP to work (Wayne Kovsky)
What is /sbin for? (Was: Proper use of /usr/local) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits ????????????? ("Andy Piper")
Re: Ftp software ? (Steve McClay)
Re: Amaya: works only with local files ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: *.tgz (Peter Caffin)
Re: Ftp software ? (Steve McClay)
Re: Ftp software ? (Steve McClay)
Re: Programming crashes my system (Marco Anglesio)
Screendump to file (Sander van Vugt)
Re: Exhaustive testing of a suspect hard drive
Re: cdrecord problem (Villy Kruse)
Re: Starting X at boot-up (Tony Grant)
S3trio3D/2X -86c362 ("DigSys-office Pazardjik")
user can't write to anything (g gilmore)
Re: Exhaustive testing of a suspect hard drive ("D. Vrabel")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 07:02:54 GMT
In article <7hg32i$2sb7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell) wrote:
> I have an assortment of local utility programs that I keep in
> /usr/local/bin that aren't part of any distribution. I want them
> to still be there after mkfs'ing every partition that had anything
> included in the system install (assuming, of course that /usr/local
> is on it's own partition or is a symlink to one not used by the
> system).
Ahh... now it becomes more clear.
"System" files go in /usr -- we both agree here.
"Custom" files go in /usr/local -- again we both agree.
Now there's the tricky issue of "standard" packages, which you seem to
think should go in /usr [so that they'll be upgraded with the rest of
the system], whereas us *BSD-heads insist they go in /usr/local with the
other non-system stuff.
> There is also an assortment of locally tweaked programs
> that need to checked on a case-by-case basis as to whether this
> distribution version is better than mine.
Okay, I see what you're doing now. You're using /usr as both the
location of the system files as well as a *staging* area for
/usr/local. That's pure insanity. Rather than sticking standard
packages in /usr to keep them out of the way of what's in /usr/local
[until you decide to make the contents of /usr the 'live' version],
wouldn't it just be simpler not to *install* the packages until you're
sure you want them? Once you're sure that the distribution version is
the one you want, it doesn't conflict with your way of doing things to
simply install it in /usr/local.
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-Bill Clark
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Subject: Re: Gnu make question ($$@)
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 May 1999 00:13:26 -0700
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>>>>> "Victor" == Victor Eijkhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Victor> I'm probably in the wrong group, so feel free to redirect
Victor> me ... I have Redhat linux, so I'm using gnu make. I have
Victor> a rule:
Victor> x y z : file1.o file2.o [email protected] $(LINKER) -o [email protected] file1.o
Victor> file2.o [email protected]
Did you look in the GNU make manual? It says
`$@'
The file name of the target of the rule. If the target is an
archive member, then `$@' is the name of the archive file. In a
pattern rule that has multiple targets (*note Introduction to
Pattern Rules: Pattern Intro.), `$@' is the name of whichever
target caused the rule's commands to be run.
That seems to be different from your usage.
mp
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Wilson)
Subject: Can't get AVI's to work with xanim
Date: 14 May 1999 07:14:44 GMT
I downloaded the AVI codec tarball for the glibc2.1 library (which IS present
on my system, as it came with RH6.0), and followed the instructions contained
in the readme file after un-gziping it and un-taring it. I placed it in the
proper directory and set the XANIM_MOD_DIR environment variable to the path.
However, xanim still holds that the AVI format is unsupported when I attempt
to load an AVI file. rxvt reads:
AVI Video Codec: Unknown I263(49323633) is unsupported by this executable.
(E18)
AVI Notice: No supported Video frames -- treating as audio only file.
just as it read before.
What could possibly be wrong?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522)
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:19:33 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> I'd guess that at least two thirds of the people I know have been
> >> unemployed long enough to collect EI.
>
> >But they haven't been substantially helped by the system?
>
> I think all but one of them have ended up behind on the deal. I was paid
> something like $250 by the EI system, after having several hundred dollars
> taken from my paychecks. I got employed in three weeks anyway; if I'd just
> not applied for EI, I would have been nearly as well off, and if I'd never
> had to pay for it, I would have been dramatically better off.
Sure - but that's because you were employed three weeks later. What about
those who *don't* find a job that quickly? It's those people who need the
most help - and it's those people who are likely to be in the situations
you outlined before where some money *now* can make a big difference.
> Keep in mind the indirect effects. How are people affected by the people who
> are encouraged by misdesign of the system to put up with it rather than trying
> to get a job, and, thus, who are less productive than they otherwise would be?
> Less wealth, same number of people, people are worse off.
I'd rather have that than people dying because they simply can't afford
to buy food.
To me, the definition of civilisation is that instead of being survival
of the fittest, it's survival of as many people as possible - even if the
*average* living condition suffers slightly.
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http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem Setup Help
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:22:07 -0700
I have this strange problem with my modem. When I boot
the machine, if I just dial in to my ISP first, I get very very slow
transfer rates (500 bytes/sec). I was told that perhaps my modem
initalization string was incorrect so I changed it to what Minicom
uses. This gave the same problem as mentioned above....However, If I
run minicom first...dial
in to a modem line and then disconnect and then dial into my isp, I get
good transfer rates (3-4k sec). Here is the pppd script I am using:
/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS2 33600 user yyyy connect "/usr/sbin/chat ''
'AT S7=45 S0=0 L1 V1 X4 &c1 E1 Q0' OK ATDxxxxxxx CONNECT '/d/c'"
where xxxxxxx is my isp's phone number and yyyy is my user name. Also,
strangely enough, sometimes pppd
"un setuid's" itself...that is, I have to setuid /usr/sbin/pppd.
Any help with this maddness would be greatly appreciated.
Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Wilson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Real Audio does not work. Why?
Date: 14 May 1999 07:24:25 GMT
The Real Audio player does not work correctly on this system. It has nothing
to do with my sound card, considering that I've been able to play sound files
using other applications. It has nothing to do with me neglecting to assign
the proper environment variables, considering that I've already done that. It
has nothing to do with me installing the player incorrectly, considering that
the player executes (and is recognized by Netscape) just fine. However,
whenever I attempt to play a file, the sound cuts out after less than a
second, and I recieve a "Error 1: General Error". (The page at Real Networks
site is far from helpful regarding this point.) I've also recieved a message
that said "Error 11: Not a Real Audio file" when loading a file with an .rm
extention, which most certain IS a Real Audio file.
The people from Real Networks have been completely unresponsive to the trouble
ticket I sent to them regarding this problem. Why am I not surprised?
Does anybody know how I can get the Real Player up and running? I spent
enough time trying to figure out how to get my sound card working, and it
seemed like a real victory when I did. But what kind of victory is it when I
wanted to get sound working for the primary purpose of using Real Audio, a
piece of software that DOES NOT WORK on my machine! ARRGH!!
Please CC any responses to me.
piece of software that DOES NOT WORK on my machine! ARRGH!!!!
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Subject: Re: Bash Question
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 May 1999 00:26:22 -0700
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>>>>> "fraf" == fraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
fraf> its because `bash -version` kicks off another bash! try
fraf> ^c^v (ie cntrol-c, control-v) to check the version of bash
fraf> you are currently running.
What exactly do you think is going to happen when you type C-c at the
command prompt?
mp
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Tweaking for a high-end server?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:31:54 +0100
I'm having some problems getting a set of results for some tests I'm
running on my server. A number of users are set up to give the system a
known load, and then a single operation is performed 10000 times as
quickly as possible. All this is done over the network.
I've found that a lot of times, several of the 10000 connections are
refused. (As a guide, it usually takes about 60 seconds to perform the
operations.)
I've already tweaked the following parameters:
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout: 30
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog: 1024
/proc/sys/fs/file-max: 16384
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range: 1024 60000
Does anyone have any further suggestions? Anything in /proc/sys/net/core?
Would it be reasonable to increase tcp_max_syn_backlog even further?
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Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 01:29:45 -0600
From: Wayne Kovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Getting PPP to work
Bill Unruh wrote:
(snip)
> Anyway, you can go to
> axion.physics.uc.ca/ppp-linux for a step by step instruction page to get
> ppp going with your ISP.
Bill, you must have been composing your message at exactly the same time
I was recommending that URL.
I just wanted to say "thank you" for a writing this really excellent
tutorial on getting PPP working. When I first installed RH 5.1, I read
O'Reilly's "Linux Network Administrator's Guide", and all the on-line
docs I could find, but your instructions were the best of the lot. Just
that single tip about "kernel does not support PPP" being such a
catch-all error message would save countless unnecessary kernel
recompilations -- I see them all the time in this newsgroup.
Good job!
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Colorado Software Summit (A Java Programming Conference)
http://www.SoftwareSummit.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: What is /sbin for? (Was: Proper use of /usr/local)
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 07:27:56 GMT
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Tor Slettnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Now, the difference between ../bin and ../sbin is a little more
> >unclear. It used to be that static binaries went into sbin, and
> >binaries linked against a library in ../lib went into ../bin.
That doesn't sound right. To my knowledge, such things as sh and ls
have always been static binaries, and have always resided in /bin. In
fact, a quick scan of my /bin directory shows only one dynamically
linked binary [and the contents of /bin haven't changed in quite some
time, so I can be reasonably sure that these files were always
statically linked].
> >Nowadays, however, more and more people seem to have the idea that
> >'sbin' is for system administration utilities.
I don't know... that actually sounds like a more reasonable explanation
to me. This should be a known historical fact, since the naming
convention was obviously invented by *somebody* for *some* reason.
Pointers, anyone?
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From: "Andy Piper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits ?????????????
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:26:01 +0100
Reply-To: "Andy Piper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Julio De Gregorio wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>I installed Red Hat 6, Netscape 4.51 works fine, but when I try to open
>a page that includes some Java, Netscape suddenly exits just after
>printing
>'Starting Java...' in the status bar.
>
>What can I do????????
I, and several other people, have had similar problems with Netscape 4.5
when trying to access sites that contain Java. Unfortunately, none of us
have come up with a good solution yet.
Andy
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From: Steve McClay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ftp software ?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:16:26 GMT
Hi,
I got the program, but am having problems installing it. I get the
following message :
libgdk-1.2.so.0 is needed by IglooFTP-0.6.1-1
libglib-1.2.so.0 is needed by IglooFTP-0.6.1-1
libgmodule-1.2.so.0 is needed by IglooFTP-0.6.1-1
libgtk-1.2.so.0 is needed by IglooFTP-0.6.1-1
Where do I get these files from ?
Thanks,
Steve.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try: http://www.littleigloo.org/
> Also visit: http://awwm.linuxberg.com/software.html
>
> Steve McClay wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I wanted to know if there is any Good Ftp software for (Redhat)
Linux? I
> > am using NCFTP currently. I would also like to know if there is any
> > command that would let me transfer subdirectories as well (in
NCFTP)?
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Amaya: works only with local files ?
Date: 14 May 1999 08:13:43 GMT
Hello Mihaly,
Mihaly Gyulai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is Amaya capable of viewing the Internet or not ?
> Anyone use Amaya for browsing the Net ?
Yes, it's no problem. But you have to explicitly write the protocol.
So, instead of writing `www.w3c.org' you have to type
`http://www.w3c.org/'
^^^^^^^
I think, this should solve your problem.
Ciao,
Carsten
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Dept. of Theor. Physics, University of Hannover, Germany
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 07:50:21 GMT
In article <7hgdtu$2u15$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell) wrote:
>snip<
> continuing to build disk layouts that
> pretend that there is some reason for expecting an artificially small
> amount of space available as you boot isn't. There really isn't much
> reason for the separation of /bin, /usr/bin and /sbin, /usr/sbin
> anymore. Most of us still have to live with some bios constraints but
> that only affects loading the kernel itself.
Good point. In fact, that provides a nice way to solve the /usr vs.
/usr/local dilemma [at least with regards to the bin subdirs] -- simply
move all the "system" binaries from /usr/bin to /bin, and leave the
"standard" packages there [on Linux] or move them in there from
/usr/local/bin [on *BSD]. The *BSD people don't like Linux's method
because it intermingles system binaries with non-system binaries. Linux
people don't like the *BSD method because it intermingles distribution
packages with custom packages.
This makes everyone happy:
/bin - system binaries
/usr/bin - distribution binaries
/usr/local/bin - custom binaries
[just throw *sbin away, I guess]
Whaddya think?
-Bill Clark
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From: Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: *.tgz
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:31:24 +0800
J Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A tar file is not a compressed file, it is an archive.
> tar archives files and directories
> zip compresses them
That would work to create .tar.zip files (kinda rare ;)). I think you
meant gzip (for .tar.gz and .tgz files).
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From: Steve McClay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ftp software ?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:21:43 GMT
Thanks for the recommendation. I would try the program soon. I think the
RPM website was really cool !!!
Rgds,
Steve
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Lev Babiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I highly recommend lftp. It feels just like bash, allows to background
> jobs,
> mirroring, etc. You can find an RPM at http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/
.
>
> - Lev
>
> > I wanted to know if there is any Good Ftp software for (Redhat)
Linux? I
> > am using NCFTP currently. I would also like to know if there is any
> > command that would let me transfer subdirectories as well (in
NCFTP)?
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
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From: Steve McClay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ftp software ?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:24:40 GMT
Yup the recursion option really works :)). Now the only problem is the
symbolic links. Is there any way to ensure that I get them too ?
Thanks,
Steve
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jim Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use NCFTP myself, and love it.
>
> get -R -C *
>
> Will recurse subdirectories and force a continuation on files you
> already have.
>
> Jim
>
> Steve McClay wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I wanted to know if there is any Good Ftp software for (Redhat)
Linux? I
> > am using NCFTP currently. I would also like to know if there is any
> > command that would let me transfer subdirectories as well (in
NCFTP)?
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
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>
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>
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> located here)
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Anglesio)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux-redhat
Subject: Re: Programming crashes my system
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 19:08:10 GMT
On Thu, 13 May 1999 14:00:27 -0500, Robert J. Sprawls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Question: Is there a utility to decipher the core dump? It's all binary,
>so how does one go about reading it?
gdb -c core will load your core dump into gdb; you can debug it from
there.
marco
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From: Sander van Vugt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Screendump to file
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:37:59 +0200
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a utility with which i can make a
screendump to a file, not only in X, but also in text-based mode?
Thanks, Sander
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From: <>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Exhaustive testing of a suspect hard drive
Date: 14 May 1999 07:49:13 GMT
"Matthew B. Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreibt: > Hello all,
>
> I recently gained a 2 Gb hard drive which according to the previous
> user, has bad sectors. I've installed it in my linux machine,
> partitioned it into two 500 Mb partitions and one 1000 Mb partition,
> formatted each partition with mkfs, and mounted them successfully for
> normal use. None of these operations complained about any drive
> problems.
>
> My question: Is there a way I can thoroughly scan the disk for bad
> sectors and surface problems? Something like scandisk under dos,
> perhaps?
Of course you can test it with e2fsck periodically. But there are other
ways of testing. First question: Is it SCSI or EIDE? SCSI has modepages,
where those bad sectors are mentioned (factory bad sectors and growing
bad sectors).
Bye
Armin Kaiser
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: cdrecord problem
Date: 14 May 1999 09:49:30 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>That looks a little different from the command I use, shouldn't it
>be dev=5,0 ? I tried the command cdrecord -driver=help to get a list of
>known brands saw various phillips drives, but not the 2600 and I use
>version 1.6. Are you sure it's supported?
I've burned several CDs on a Philips 2600 succesfully, so the drive does
work.
Villy
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From: Tony Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Starting X at boot-up
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:51:11 +0000
Jim McIntyre wrote:
>
> Some question about my boot-up process.
>
> 1. How do I boot Linux directly into X. I cant' find the command to use
> anywhere.
> 2. Do I insert the command into .bashrc or Xinitrc.
> 3. Are there any potential security compromises associated with booting
> directly into X.
Try Login.app - better than xdm IMHO
Cheers
Tony
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From: "DigSys-office Pazardjik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: S3trio3D/2X -86c362
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:14:40 +0300
Does It exist X-server working with S3 Trio3D/2X - Video with 86C362
chipset?
Thank you in advance!
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From: g gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: user can't write to anything
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 01:06:59 -0700
Recently my HD became full. I removed somethings and made some free
space. But now only root can write to files, mk dirs, compile
programs or even save bookmarks. Logged in as an user I get an error
message that there is not enough space on the disk. And I notice
right now that backspace doesn't work, it deletes forward just like
delete does.
How come?
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Exhaustive testing of a suspect hard drive
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:20:34 +0100
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Matthew B. Kennedy wrote:
> I recently gained a 2 Gb hard drive which according to the previous
> user, has bad sectors. I've installed it in my linux machine,
> partitioned it into two 500 Mb partitions and one 1000 Mb partition,
> formatted each partition with mkfs, and mounted them successfully for
> normal use. None of these operations complained about any drive
> problems.
>
> My question: Is there a way I can thoroughly scan the disk for bad
> sectors and surface problems? Something like scandisk under dos,
> perhaps?
badblocks I think it's called.
David
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