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Hackeron Guru
Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 307
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Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 5:54 pm Post subject: Hey, what's the equivelant to ScanDisk on linux? |
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Hey, what's the equivelant to ScanDisk on linux?.. my gentoo crashed when starting gdm for some reason and when I run vim I get loads of errors with vim-info and my XF86Config file is currupt, other files might be currupt to.. so I really need to scan disk the system. |
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vers_iq Apprentice
Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 264
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Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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didnt you read anything about linux, for a start try fsck. |
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Servo n00b
Joined: 03 Nov 2002 Posts: 2 Location: St. Louis, MO
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Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, in your case, I'd just reinstall the whole XF86 structure. It'd be a lot easier than trying to fix everything, and your screwed if anything's corrupted, anyway.
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Like vers_iq said, it's fsck. Do a 'man fsck', and be enlightened.
Just in case you don't have man, it's "fsck /dev/*", or "e2fsck /dev/*" if you have ext2. Not sure if there's a different procedure for ext3 or reiser. |
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IvanHoe l33t
Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 658
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Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | didnt you read anything about linux, for a start try fsck. |
Nice attitude. This is a newbie forum BTW. |
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phong Bodhisattva
Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 778 Location: Michigan - 15 & Ryan
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Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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Since the question's been answered, I'm locking this thread before it gets any warmer in here. For future reference, it is a good idea to check out documentation, FAQs and do a search (here and on google) before asking a question - though most people here don't object to helping a n00b out. _________________ "An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."
-- Eric Hoffer |
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