[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: hard drive testing -- e2fsck = more data friendly

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 16:57, Courtney Grimland wrote:
> mke2fs -c /dev/hdc1
> or
> mke2fs -cc /dev/hdc1
> That's all I've got.  And the smartsuite tools are somewhat related and 
> might be useful also:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite/

While that will do it, I'd opt for "e2fsck" with the same options if the
filesystem is existing and you like your data.  ;-ppp

I'd recommend one become familiar with the entire "e2fsprogs" package. 
There are a lot of options to become familiar with.


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