[svlug] fsck on HD booted from CD???

Skip Evans skip at bigskypenguin.com
Sun Jan 28 14:31:27 PST 2007


I have no executable badblocks on Freesbie.

Also, I think that because the live CD was booted, 
it doesn't seem to know anything about the 
installed HD. I get "Could not determine file 
system type" no matter what I with fsck.

Skip

Nick Austin wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:04:35PM -0700, Skip Evans wrote:
> 
>>How can I run fsck, or some other way to check 
>>out/clean up the hard drive?
> 
> 
> If you want to run a destructive test, try badblocks.
> 
> try something like:
> 
> badblocks -svw /dev/<drive to test>
> 
> Thanks!
> 

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