On Tuesday 12 December 2006 17:19, jdd wrote: > do you know any utility able to do for a hdd what memtest do > for RAM? > > It seems like I have HW problems and I can't figure out > what. fsck don't gives anything. > > symptoms: on heavy work, linux freezes, disk is corrupted, > but as soon as I reformat it fsck -c don't complain anymore, > but the freeze keep occuring again. tested with ext3 and > reiserfs :-( > > I don't remember having seen badblocks listed by fsck,
There is a utility called "badblocks". See it's manpage for usage. It lives in /sbin/ (of course), and is probably already installed. Maybe this is what you're looking for? > arrors where like date of the superblock in the future or > inode error (and there has been a crash, so this is not > surprising) > > the cpu could be hot, but I fixed the fan (some oil) and > still freezes :-( Any other disk drives in the same PC that do not have this behavior, or this drive showing same erroneous behavior in a different PC are indications dat it might be a faulty drive. Cheers, Leen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
