Re: [TCLUG:16146] Fsck Stuff

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

>Is there something like fsck that does a hardware check on a drive?  For
>example Checking fro bad sectors, disk IO errors, then marks the sectors
>as bad so the OS doesn't try to use them?
>	I'm running linux 2.3.8 with ext2 partitions...

        I hope that's not your primary box that you're running a devel
kernel on! :)
        wasn't there some filesystem corruption problems with 2.3 kernels up
until the .20s or .30s?

I admit I tried a devel kernel on my main box once; but that's because it's
really the only box I have to try stuff on; and I waited until 2.3.99pre1.
        and I succeeded in causing a kernel panic. :)
        been too lazy to go back and work on it more.

Carl Soderstrom
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