46638 – Helping users with questionable hard drives

Bug 46638 - Helping users with questionable hard drives

Summary: Helping users with questionable hard drives

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs-user
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Gentoo Linux x86 Installation Guide (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)

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Depends on:	44335
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Reported:	2004-04-02 13:39 UTC by Dave
Modified:	2004-04-11 08:35 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Dave 2004-04-02 13:39:49 UTC

For the instructions to use mke2fs, perhaps a little note should be added that if the user has a questionable hard drive, they can

mke2fs -c

to have mke2fs check their hard drive.  And if they're SUPER paranoid, they can

mke2fs -c -c

which does an exhaustive read/write test.

Even though I marked this as x86, it's probably applicable across architectures.


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-05 00:14:55 UTC

This is a good addendum for the Tips 'n Tricks document that we will write up.

Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-11 08:35:59 UTC

Added in CVS. Thanks!

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml

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