On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 06:08:21PM -0600, FizzyPop wrote:
> I keep getting {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }'s and I
> figure
> it's all bad blocks. I ran "fsck /dev/hda2" but it only seems to do a
> cursory examination (not taking nearly as long as the scan when I installed
> Linux) and I keep getting the same errors after presumably correcting them.
> So I was wondering what the utility was to thouroughly check all of the HD
> for errors.
The command you want is badblocks, I had similar errors a while ago, they
were caused by my harddrive, well.. dying.. :) Good thing it still had
warranty..
> Also, I've been told not to run disk checks while the HD is mounted, how
> can I load linux sans mounting the HD? does it work if I boot from a
> floppy?
that would work, as long as the floppy doesn't mount the hard drives.. I've
tried several times to unmount my root partition (which is obviously
impossible) I also heard that one should be able to use the remount option
of mount along with -ro, but that also failed. Since I'm too lazy to run
lsof, and look at what programs are accessing my root partition (prolly all
of them), I usually do something like tune2fs -C 255 /dev/hda5, which causes
my partition to be checked. If you actually care about why this works, read
man tune2fs. Although, this is hardly ever necessary.
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