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 smartmontools, but I'll do it as
soon as I've fully understood and documented how to use e2fsck.
I don't know. First question, though, is: are you doing this on a
mounted filesystem? If so, You're Doing It Wrong.
No, it's unmounted. I'm checking an external device.
As to checking mounted devices, the man page is very confusing:
See: http://linux.overshoot.tv/ticket/112