On Monday 18 September 2006 16:46, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sunday 17 September 2006 17:15, J Merritt wrote: > >> What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard > >> drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in > >> Debian? > > > > fsck for filesystem integrity, and badblocks for bad blocks. > > and smartmontools to use the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and > Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) on the disks that you have. I guess while we're at it, hdparm for all the low-level stuff you shouldn't be tweaking unless you know what you're doing... -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca
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