From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 14 12:56:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C68316A4CE for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:56:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2179E43D1D for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:56:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from localhost.invalid (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i1EKuE9U009078; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:56:15 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:56:29 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <402E8931.2020509@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <402E8931.2020509@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402141256.29835.kstewart@owt.com> cc: Mark Hessler Subject: Re: Other ways to check/repair disks besides fsck? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:56:31 -0000 On Saturday 14 February 2004 12:46 pm, Mark Hessler wrote: > Hello, > > Are there any other approaches to checking/repairing disks besides > fsck after a power outage? > You have to remember that it is your fs that is most likely fouled up and that is what fsck checks. The next step lower, from my experience, is a low level format by program provided by most HD manufacturer's. Obviously, that is a last grasp choice. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html