disk repair

[dattaway at attaway.net]

> Okay.. I know that fsck will do some basic repair on a disk.  Is there
> any other programs that will go through a disk and read the contents
> ignoring errors or at least prompting to skip them?

fsck?

Yes, it can!

assuming your doing this on the first partition of the first ide drive...

The -a option is your friend

fsck -a /dev/hda1

another way to do it is introduce it to Dr. Yes:

yes | fsck -a /dev/hda1