Mandriva equivalent of scandisk?
 

Hello,

I'm a newbie and my installation of Mandriva seems to be very poorly. I suspect the hard drive but can't find any ready installed software to run the Linux equivalent of Scandisk to see if this is the case.

Am I looking in the wrong places, is such a tool is only accessible to "root" or do I need to download something?

If the latter, can someone recommend something totally idiot proof to download and install?

Thanks

Edited to add that it is Mandriva 2006

http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/KB/AdminArecov

Notice:

* 'fsck' should only be run on unmounted file systems.
* 'fsck.ext2' will also work on 'ext3' file systems.

Read the info in the wiki before you start!

fschk

came LONG before scandisk, works 10000% better faster and can fix errors that windows cant see, but it is only realy ment for reiser, ext2 3 and other linux/unix made FS`s.

BUT you msut unmount the drive before the scan or data can bdamged lsot or worse....and yes there is a worse

The standard fsck's behavior fix logical errors in the file system structure. Run it as pointed by our fellows.
To fix hardware errors in bad blocks use fsck with the option "-cc", which will perform a non-destructive read-write test on the media.

um i jsut wondering is my answer being bashed or something cause i am confused all i sadi was fsck


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