Re: ACCK! Disk crash

2002-12-12 Thread nate
Andrew Pritchard said: > Under DOS/Windows I'd run scandisk - what is the debian/linux equivalent? scandisk won't tell you much, nor will e2fsck (EXT2's filesystem checker). your best off using the tools made for your drive. IBM has special tools for their drives, Maxtor has tools for their dri

ACCK! Disk crash

2002-12-12 Thread Andrew Pritchard
It looks like one of the disks in my fileserver has crashed - loads of data lost. Not an issue - that's what backups are for! However, I want to know if the hardware is sound (I'm not convinced it is - or was to begin with but that's another issue). Under DOS/Windows I'd run scandisk - what is th