Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:09:05 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Lloyd Rennie <lloyd@vbc.net>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck query Message-ID: <20010619130905.F30037@mail.webmonster.de> In-Reply-To: <xzp4rtd8xl5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:14:14PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10106181613200.94480-100000@brunel.uk1.vbc.net> <xzp4rtd8xl5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Dag-Erling Smorgrav(des@ofug.org)@2001.06.18 20:14:14 +0000: > Lloyd Rennie <lloyd@vbc.net> 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. one might note that this specific issue is addressed by diskcheckd by ben/phk in -current. according to phk the MFC to -stable is on it's way, perhaps it is already committed. /k -- > "Dort wo andere Moral besitzen hat sie ein Loch." --Erich Kaestner KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.net/ karsten&rohrbach.de -- alpha&ngenn.net -- alpha&scene.org -- catch@spam.de GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 10x [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7LzLQM0BPTilkv0YRAvGQAJ9mmeJyTzccEmNCmim1F0y17FeuMACeKNf4 y06ZuFMRS4oC8k2O4PMn/r0= =JIti -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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