According to Claude Robitaille: While burning my CPU.
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> fsck checks the filesystem not the hard drive. In case of a bad block or
> any other hardware error, the result of using fsck is to have the kernel
> fill the screen with error messages of the same type the guy already
> have. I do not think there is a low level (ie hardware) test software
> for Linux. I am not a disk expert but I guess such a utility would be
> highly disk manufacturer dependant but may be some basic sanity checks
> could be done by a relatively generic utility.
e2fsck is whats needed in my opinion, read the man page and you will see how
to use it in conjuntion with 'badblocks'.
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> Claude
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> On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:
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> > fsck ( = FileSystem ChecK) is what you want. Assuming your filesystem is
> > ext2, the actual app will be either e2fsck or fsck.ext2 (varies by
> > distribution and version). Normally, you want to fsck only unmounted
> > filesystems, and I don't offhand recall how to deal with the root filesystem
> > in this regard (other than the obvious option of booting with a rescue disk
> > and running e2fsck from it on the now-unmounted root filesystem).
> >
> > And yes, it's probably a bad block on the hard drive.
> >
> > At 07:35 PM 3/19/99 -0500, Mandy wrote:
> > >Hi All,
> > >
> > >I just had something strange happen to me..........I tried to do a find for
> > >something and the first time i did it, it found some things, but nothing i
> > >wanted........but at the end of the screen it said:
> > >
> > >DIRECTORY SREAD (sector 0x20) FAILED
> > >
> > >Well, I did the same find over again and it filled the ENTIRE screen with
> > >this! What is going on???? Do I have a bad hard drive sector?? How can I find
> > >out?? is there a scandisk for Linux or something? I am running RH5.2, with
> > >KDE(not version 1.1) on a PII 233 mhz, 32 MB RAM, if that helps any.
> >
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