> The other day I was using dselect, and when I was installing some of the > packages, I was getting read errors on the drive. What could I do about > this? Is there something LIKE Disk Doctor for linux? > joe
You want to use fsck, from the e2fsprogs package. Switch to single user mode by typing (as root): init 1 Then run fsck. For example: # fsck /dev/hda1 If you get lots of errors, you may want to run it using the -y option so you don't have to hit 'y' all of the time. You can also use the -b option to scan for bad blocks on you hard drive. Yesterday, my hard drive had some very serious problems, and I found that the fsck in e2fstools_1.06 didn't work -- but I upgraded to e2fstools_1.07 (in experimental), and that did the trick. Cheers, - Jim
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