Disk scan utility?

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Author: KevinO
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Subject: Disk scan utility?
DARREN BROWN wrote:
> 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?
>

The standard way to do this is to go to single-user mode (run level one),
umount the filesystem (or remount it read-only) and then do the fsck.

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KevinO

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