Re: OT: memory requirements

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 22:12:26 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/26/07 21:30, Tyler wrote:

[...]

> > In the meantime, how does one check for bad blocks and bad ram? I have
> > the pre-installed fsck running every 30th boot, and so far no errors
> > have ever been reported.
> 
> That's how you check for bad blocks!!  Actually, there's a file you
> can touch(1) that will force the boot scripts to fsck all disks, but
> I can't find it. :(

If recall correctly it is

touch /forcefsck

You can also simply add the "-F" option to the shutdown command:

shutdown -F now

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Regards,
          Florian