From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Subject: Re: mke2fs and e2fsck Date: 30 May 1993 18:51:32 GMT
On 28 May 93 00:31:11 GMT, chaddejn@phoebe.ece.clarkson.edu (Joseph N Chadderdon) said:
> Can anyone help me get rid of some errors on my HardDrive???
> I can't find any man pages on e2fsck on how to use it to check
> a partition. It presently tells me I have numerous blocks allocated
> but no one is using them, how do I fix this!
Use "e2fsck -a" to repair bad files, and "e2fsck -ac" to check the
disk for bad blocks and to add these blocks to the filesystem's bad
block list. Running e2fsck without options will report on filesystem
errors but will not fix them.
Cheers,
Stephen.