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01.02.2006 at 04:02PM PST, ID: 21681534
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How to Check Disk for Errors in Linux

Asked by piratepatrol in Linux, Fedora Linux, Linux Distributions

Tags: linux, disk, check

Hi everyone,

In Windows, I can check a hard disk for errors with a couple of clicks of the mouse.  How is this done in Linux?  I have Fedora Core 2.

Thanks you so much,


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01.02.2006 at 04:08PM PST, ID: 15594723
Tim_Utschig:
fsck /dev/hda1

Where /dev/hda1 is the partition to check for consistency errors.

You can further check for bad blocks (on an ext2/3 filesystem) with:

   e2fsck -c /dev/hda1

Note this could take a LONG time depending on the size and speed of your disk.
Some file systems automatically handle bad blocks, so you don't have to go checking for them.
 
01.02.2006 at 04:17PM PST, ID: 15594780
wesly_chen:
For fsck/e2fsck, it is highly recommended that run it in the single user mode with minmium running processes.

As root, do
init -s
to go to single user mode.

Then run
fdisk -l
to see all the partition table
and run fsck against the ext2/ext3 partitions.
 
01.02.2006 at 04:30PM PST, ID: 15594861
piratepatrol:
Heheh!  When I typed fsck /dev/hda2, I got this

WARNING!!!  Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage.

So I aborted.

Before I did this, I tried init -s, but it said invalid option -- s.

hda 2 is the main partition where all my apps are.
 
01.02.2006 at 04:38PM PST, ID: 15594907
Tim_Utschig:
Try:  telinit s

Once you get into single user mode, you may have to remount your partition read-only before fsck'ing it:

mount -o remount,ro /dev/hda2
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01.02.2006 at 04:43PM PST, ID: 15594933
wesly_chen:
init s
or
init 1
will get into single user mode, too.

Other way is boot from Fedora first CD into rescue mode. (type "linux rescue")
Then run fsck there, which none of application run from hard disks.
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01.02.2006 at 04:53PM PST, ID: 15594976
jlevie:
From a rescue boot you can do a non-destructive disk scan. That can reveal problems that an fsck won't find. And you can force an fsck to check for file system problems by 'touch /forcefsck' followed by a reboot.

From a rescue boot (with out the system mounted) one can do a non-destructive disk scan with 'badblocks -s -n /dev/hda' (replacing hda with the disk of interest).
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01.02.2006 at 07:40PM PST, ID: 15595900
piratepatrol:
Thanks, you guys.  Wow, I was hoping it would be just a couple of mouse clicks like in Windows!  :-)
 
 
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