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Topic: Checking HD/dsl-installation, detecting corruption< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
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Posted: Jan. 05 2005,10:14 QUOTE
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)

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Posted: Jan. 05 2005,14:56 QUOTE
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.
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Posted: Jan. 05 2005,16:35 QUOTE
my usb boots fine now.. i was just wondering what equivalent there are for scandisk/defrag/checkdisk (windows programs) for linux...

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Posted: Jan. 05 2005,18:11 QUOTE
apt-get the dosfstools package...
It's just one .deb

then run dosfsck /dev/hd**

works like e2fsck..

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