[vox-tech] looking for a decent < 20GB HD

[Rod Roark]

On Sunday 05 October 2003 11:23 pm, Mark K. Kim wrote:
[...]
> On a related note, I asked a while ago whether anyone knew of a way to
> find out if a portion of a hard drive (or any drive's) partition is
> unreadable/unwritable due to a damage.  Nobody responded.

"e2fsck -c" will do this.  Specifying -c twice performs a
(slower) nondestructive read/write test, according to my man
page for e2fsck.

-- Rod