On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 02:33:38PM -0500, linda hanigan wrote:
> Hi All,
> Is there a hardware diagnostics program on the order of Scandisk for
> a Linux partition. I checked fdisk man pages but didn't see options for
> checking surface or the filesystem. I am getting some unpleasant messages
> in my log including
> EXT2-fs error (device IDE0(3,10); ext2-readdir: directory #118321
> contains a hole at offset 0
> some I/0 errors and lots of timeout busy resets. However I doubt if
> this alone will convince the shop that sold it to me that my hard drive
> is bad as I have not had any noticable problems and They think I am
> crazy since I load Linux on everything they build for me.
> Linda
e2fsck -cfv /dev/<whatever>
The filesystem(s) should be either not mounted, or mounted read-only
at the time this is run.
Fred
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