Hi, Erick! Erick Calder (e@arix.com) wrote: > From Karl > > Have you tried mke2fs with the -c option in LVM and on the drive without > I haven't tried that but if I unmount the filesystem and check it: > # umount /dev/LVM/mp3z > # fsck /dev/LVM/mp3z > it comes up clean.... is that not an equivalent test? No. Definitively not. mke2fs -c also runs badblocks(8), which tries to read every single byte in the partition. (Optionally you can even have it do a write test. There is even a non-destructive write test in newer badblocks. Use with care and do have current backups.) fsck just checks that the metadata (directories, space used by files, etc) looks OK. -Wolfgang
