just a min. ago, I flipped the switch on my surge protector with my foot(time to rethink placement ), resulting in half the lighting in my room going off, along with my computer. The computer seems fine(well, except for the fact I was multitasking my heart out), but, I would like to run a bad blocks check on my HD just to be sure. I'm running reiserfs.

Thanks!

Go root and type

fsck.rfs ( It maybe named slightly diffrently )

This should run a file system check. Though as reiserfs is a journalling filesystem it should check itself.

A coworker at a former job used to come back from the ladies room, lunch, etc. and dump her purse under the desk. A good percentage of the time she'd manage to hit the power strip just so and abruptly cut power to her PC. She became a CCSP (Certified CHKDSK and SCANDISK Professional) in no time.
Someone else has already mention who to check the integrity of your filesystems. If you think the disk itself needs to be checked, look into the "badblocks" command. This will test the actual disk surface. Be very careful if you decide to run this command. It recognizes options that could very swiftly clobber a lot of data.