When I run e3fsck -cf /dev/hda3, I get a message stating; WARNINGS!!!
Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SERVERE filesystem damage.
Found out that the -cf does a badblock test for you. Cool....
Has anyone ran this type of command line, got the message, and went forward
w/ the process it runs? What happened if you did?
Regards,
Darren
>From: "DARREN BROWN" <fumandriver@msn.com>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Re: Disk scan utility?
>Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 15:54:28 +0000
>
>I just find out some more info on this. Check out the following link for
>detailed info
>http://tldp.org/LDP/sag/x1298.html
>
>You may want to use the badblocks command first, then the e2fsck.
>
>
>Regards,
>Darren
>
>>From: technomage <technomage-hawke@cox.net>
>>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>>To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>>Subject: Re: Disk scan utility?
>>Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 02:54:10 -0700
>>
>>>>e2fsck -c /dev/device will do just this. you can even see its progress
>>with a
>>- -v (verbose).
>>
>>Mage
>>
>>On Wednesday 14 May 2003 11:58 pm, AZ Pete wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Is there a util in Linux that will perform a surface scan of a hard
>>disk to
>> > locate bad sectors and mark them as unusable?
>> > Something similar to Windows Scandisk util.
>> > I recall during the Redhat installation routine there was a check box
>>that
>> > I could select to perform a surface scan. What utility does this?
>> > I have a hard drive I'm trying to get data from but there are a few bad
>> > sectors and as a result I'm unable to pull an image of the drive. I
>>would
>> > like to mark those sectors as bad, so I can then pull the image and get
>> > most of the data off the drive.
>> >
>> > I tried using fsck, but it only seems to check if the filesystem is
>> > contiguous. It says that the filesystem is clean.
>> >
>> > Any help would be appreciated.
>> > Peter
>> >
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