On Tuesday 22 June 2010 15:26:12 Ron Johnson wrote: > The *drive*? No. e2fsck checks the filesystem data structures > that have been written onto the drive.
Yes, sorry. I did mean the partition, not the drive. > You need SMART to check the drive. Yes, I haven't had time to install smartmontools, but I'll do it as soon as I've fully understood and documented how to use e2fsck. > I don't know. First question, though, is: are you doing this on a > mounted filesystem? If so, You're Doing It Wrong. No, it's unmounted. I'm checking an external device. As to checking mounted devices, the man page is very confusing: See: http://linux.overshoot.tv/ticket/112 > Boot from a Live CD (I like Sidux) and run the e2fsck that comes on > the CD. The errors might just go away... no :-/ Thanks for the replies. Is there a way to run e2fsck in a strictly non-desctructive, informative mode only? The man page is confusing (see ticket above). Thanks Augustin. -- Friends: http://www.reuniting.info/ http://activistsolutions.org/ My projects: http://astralcity.org/ http://3enjeux.overshoot.tv/ http://linux.overshoot.tv/ http://overshoot.tv/ http://charityware.info/ http://masquilier.org/ http://openteacher.info/ http://minguo.info/ http://www.wechange.org/ http://searching911.info/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006221617.31194.beginner2...@masquilier.org
