Re: need to scan drive thoroughly
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 01:36:17AM -0800, Lev Lvovsky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> well, if any of you are wondering, I was able to get debian installed on
> the system by low level formatting the IDE drive from BIOS (LILO kept
> giving crc errors upon uncompressing Linux).
> Now I have another problem...anything that I download to the IDE drive
> (where the /home and /boot partitioins are), I get crc errors upon
> uncompressing them. using 'fsck' on the various partitions returns no
> errors, but I think this might be where I"m getting my crc errors when I'm
> decompressingthe linux image also...
>
> Sooo...is there any utility (or switch in fsck) that will do a thorough
> scan of the drive? Also, I have my swap partition on this drive (strangely
> enough I'm not getting any wierd errors while running linux)...do I have to
> unmount this to scan the drive? If so, how can I do this safely?
>
> thanks!!!!
> -lev
>
>
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fsck -c <partition device file> will scan the drive throughly using the
badblocks program.
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