Re: e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

2010-06-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 24 iun 10, 13:16:29, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I was OP on a related thread a couple of months ago. I would say that > I abandoned trying to understand issues of checking for errors on USB > drives as a user. I did gain the impression that what I thought were > hardware errors were instead m

Re: e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

2010-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100622_022612, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/22/2010 12:33 AM, Augustin wrote: > > > >Hello, > > > >I must learn to use e2fsck as I am having some I/O problems on some of > >my external drives. > >I checked all the existing documentation everywhere I could think of > >(including the Debian offici

Re: e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

2010-06-22 Thread Huang, Tao
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Augustin wrote: > > Hello, > > I must learn to use e2fsck as I am having some I/O problems on some of > my external drives. > I checked all the existing documentation everywhere I could think of > (including the Debian official documentation and existing HOWTOs fro

Re: e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

2010-06-22 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/22/2010 3:47 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: What's unclear about it? The manpage doesn't say: Okay, when this happens, run this. When that happens, run that. (That's what he wants. And, I admit, what I want, sometimes.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

2010-06-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Augustin: > 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. No, you didn't mean the partition, you meant the filesystem. ;-) T

Re: e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

2010-06-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/22/2010 03:17 AM, Augustin wrote: 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,

Re: e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

2010-06-22 Thread Augustin
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 smartmonto

Re: e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

2010-06-22 Thread Augustin
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 smartmonto

Re: e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

2010-06-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/22/2010 12:33 AM, Augustin wrote: Hello, I must learn to use e2fsck as I am having some I/O problems on some of my external drives. I checked all the existing documentation everywhere I could think of (including the Debian official documentation and existing HOWTOs from TLDP), but couldn'

e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

2010-06-22 Thread Augustin
Hello, I must learn to use e2fsck as I am having some I/O problems on some of my external drives. I checked all the existing documentation everywhere I could think of (including the Debian official documentation and existing HOWTOs from TLDP), but couldn't find anything that is detailed and ex