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Old 08-07-2003, 09:16 PM   #1
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Disk Surface Scan Routine - Quickie!


Greetings

Hope somebody can help here please and to be honest I am embarrassed to ask such a simple question =/ - However the RedHat Reference Material only seem to supply information about surface scans during the install phase. :/

Running RedHat 9 - Kern 2.4 - up and running (post install)

Target drive/partition (ext3 - Primary partition 10 GB) is /dev/hdc1 (IDE Secondary Master)

All I would like to do is run a disk check (surface scan) on this partition ( hdc1 ) - sure that this is a one liner shell command that has evaded me.

I would prefer a destructive write test over a simple surface read test .

Cheers for any input!

Svha
 
Old 08-07-2003, 09:42 PM   #2
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Bump .... Help =P .... Pleasey
 
Old 08-08-2003, 02:01 PM   #3
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Just to close off the thread.

man fsck

Thanks to MasterC for pointing me to .....

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