From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Jun 19 4: 8:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47CBA37B401 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 04:08:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 33684 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Jun 2001 11:09:05 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:09:05 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Lloyd Rennie , fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck query Message-ID: <20010619130905.F30037@mail.webmonster.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Lloyd Rennie , fs@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="27ZtN5FSuKKSZcBU" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:14:14PM +0200 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-URL: http://www.webmonster.de/ X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer 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 --27ZtN5FSuKKSZcBU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dag-Erling Smorgrav(des@ofug.org)@2001.06.18 20:14:14 +0000: > 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 su= ch > > switch. >=20 > 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 --=20 > "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.n= et/ 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 B= F46 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 1= 0x --27ZtN5FSuKKSZcBU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7LzLQM0BPTilkv0YRAvGQAJ9mmeJyTzccEmNCmim1F0y17FeuMACeKNf4 y06ZuFMRS4oC8k2O4PMn/r0= =JIti -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --27ZtN5FSuKKSZcBU-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message