what is going on with Gnome

[Nathan England]

To check the bad clusters try booting and keeping all your drives read-only
then run 'badblocks'

I believe you use 'badblocks -sv'
Or if you are willing to risk it try 'badblocks -svn' This will do a
nondestructive read/write test...  But I've never tried it, so I can't say
it won't destroy anything..
And if you don't care what's on it, you just want it tested then try this,
'badblocks -svw' Which will write all 00's to the drive and destroy anything
on it, but will clean it really well, especially good for getting rid of
sensitive data.
This is a handy trick . Slackware comes with a live demo cd that can boot a
fully running gui linux system, which makes it real easy to run bad blocks
on aread-only system, or r/w.
But I would suggest doing the '-sv' -s show, -v verbose...

nathan

----- Original Message -----
From: "stoney the goomba" <stoney@thewell.com>
To: "plug" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 1:50 AM
Subject: what is going on with Gnome


> Hey I have another interesting little thing going on...
>
> Gnome drops the little tray that shows which programs are open... The
> application bar is what it is called in windows I think. It like shrunk
> down to nothing then I removed it somehow while trying to get the thing
> back to normal. I will probably figure it out sooner or later but was
> wondering if anyone might know what to check.
>
> BTW I ran fsck on my drive. It found a few bad clusters but I think they
> are the same ones that have been bad since I got the thing.  I am not
> sure how to verify this though.
>
> Craig aka stoney-- since there is another Craig I will go by my nic of
> stoney (my last name is stone)
>
>
>
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