Scandisk for Linux
 

Hi Everyone,
I have suse 10.1, I think now is the time to leave windows entirely. I wanted to know if it is possible to run scandisk in linux to check for bad sectors. I know that linux can automatically defrag my hard drive which is a cool thing if im correct. Thank you for your support always.





Anthony

Have a look at "man fsck" and "man badblocks".
Getting a good backup first would also be sensible.

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ok I heard that fsck only works for ext2 and ext3 filesystems. im currently runniung riserfs and I tried getting fsck to run from the command line but it was a no go.

fsck is available for many types of filesystem. For reiserfs I think you need to install the progsreiserfs or reiserfsprogs package. You can then do something like "fsck.reiserfs /some/device/node" or "fsck -t reiserfs /some/device/node".