"linda hanigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Is there a hardware diagnostics program on the order of Scandisk for
>> a Linux partition. I checked fdisk man pages but didn't see options for
>> checking surface or the filesystem.
Several people have suggested fsck for disk diagnostics. fsck checks
file system integrity and should be run in this situation. But nobody
has yet mentioned the surface-analysis utility 'badblocks', which
provides the other part of scandisk functionality. The output of
badblocks can be input into e2fsck to map out bad blocks, or badblocks
can be run by e2fsck with a command-line option. See 'man e2fsck',
'man fsck', and 'man badblocks'..
>> I am getting some unpleasant messages
>> in my log including
>> EXT2-fs error (device IDE0(3,10); ext2-readdir: directory #118321
>> contains a hole at offset 0
>> some I/0 errors and lots of timeout busy resets. However I doubt if
>> this alone will convince the shop that sold it to me that my hard drive
>> is bad as I have not had any noticable problems and They think I am
>> crazy since I load Linux on everything they build for me.
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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