[Aurora-sparc-user] fsck as part of installation.

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 23:38 +0000, Chris Andrew wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> Thanks to some great input from ~spot, it looks like I am getting an
> Aurora install on a SPARCstation20 (both processors...not yet!).
> 
> When I examine the tty on CTL+ALT+f4, I notice that the log is giving
> disc errors.
> 
> Does anyone know whether it is possible as part of the (text) install
> to do a e2fsck -c -c?:
> 
> 
> 
>        -c     This  option  causes  e2fsck to use badblocks(8) program to do a
>               read-only scan of the device in order to find  any  bad  blocks.
>               If  any  bad  blocks  are found, they are added to the bad block
>               inode to prevent them from being allocated to a file  or  direc‐
>               tory.   If  this  option  is specified twice, then the bad block
>               scan will be done using a non-destructive read-write test.
> 
> I feel that may solve my disc problem.  The disc is probably 15 years
> old, so I need to treat it with care ;-).

You could boot into rescue mode and run what you need from there.

linux rescue at the silo prompt

~spot