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Posted: Dec. 16 2004,04:29 QUOTE
My hard disk on this old notebook has been acting up.

I was thinking of reloading DSL with the latest version anyway and wanted to know what linux tools/commands I can use to check out the integrity of the disk.

Anyway to get it to do a low level format to mark any bad sectors, etc....

Thanks in advance...

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Posted: Dec. 16 2004,13:11 QUOTE
Try "badblocks -svw /dev/hda" (without quotes) - not quite sure about the options though. This will overwrite your disk completely (i.e. wipe it) four times. If you don't want to wipe it, I think you can run it without the -w option.
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