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Title: surface scan ide drive
Post by: brad on August 24, 2004, 10:31:28 PM
Hi, All!

I am trying to find out how to do a *safe* surface scan on my server with only one 60gig ide drive.

I have googled around and found a program called badblocks (sme 6.0.1 has it), but when I read the man-page it does not suggest running it directly, but rather through the e2fsck programe.

When I run the e2fsck programe, I get this output
# e2fsck -c -n /dev/hda3
WARNING!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem
may cause SEVERE filesystem damage.

Do you want to continue? (Y/N) no

How do I check a whole drive, and not just a partition?

Thanks,
--Brad