Checking HD/dsl-installationForum: Other Help Topics Topic: Checking HD/dsl-installation started by: Patrick Posted by Patrick on Jan. 05 2005,10:14
I have to make a confession: i shutdown my PC (with the off-switch) while DSL was frozen (couldn't get it to open/close anything anymore). (it turned out that i was using the wrong mplayer-dsl while i tried to watch a video-clip) Now i wonder if i somehow damaged the boot-device/installed software...How can i check the fat-partition on my usb-stick? (boot-device) How can i check the dsl-installation? (whether or not anything has become corrupted) Posted by skaos on Jan. 05 2005,14:56
I don't know about usb and so on, but on a normal HD install the boot process runs a sanity check of the partitions, so you could gamble and just try to boot it again.
Posted by Patrick on Jan. 05 2005,16:35
my usb boots fine now.. i was just wondering what equivalent there are for scandisk/defrag/checkdisk (windows programs) for linux...
Posted by ke4nt1 on Jan. 05 2005,18:11
apt-get the dosfstools package...It's just one .deb then run dosfsck /dev/hd** works like e2fsck.. 73 ke4nt |