Disk scan utility?

Thanks Thomas, that is what I want to hear. NO A GOOD THING TO MESS W/ UR
FILESYSTEM. This is a mental note to self.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Cameron" <thomas.cameron@camerontech.com>
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Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: Disk scan utility?


> I went ahead several years ago and wound up totally trashing the
filesystem.
> Granted it was ext2, not ext3, but I would definitely heed that warning.
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> From: "DARREN BROWN" <fumandriver@msn.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 1:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Disk scan utility?
>
>
> > 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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