From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Jun 18 11:14:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71BA237B401 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 11:14:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA50706; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 20:14:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Lloyd Rennie Cc: fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck query References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 18 Jun 2001 20:14:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Lloyd Rennie writes: > When I learnt to use fsck, it was under linux. There, it had a switch to > force it to check the whole of a filesystem instead of just the > inodes/filesizes/dates etc - in other words a full surface scan instead of > just a consistency check. The manpage for fsck under FreeBSD has no such > switch. If you're trying to find out if your disk has surface errors, just dd from it into /dev/null. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message