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Mia1990
October 29th, 2009, 10:32 PM
hello all,

well during a fsck scan it pointed that i have some disk errors and i dont think it fixed it would anyone know of a software that can do this for me i am still using 9.04 i have not upgraded yet as i would like to fix these first.

Thank you
m4tic
October 29th, 2009, 11:37 PM
why didnt you jst used it? it works
But it once failed and messed up my systme two weeks back after i did a partition resize

code: sudo fsck -f -y -v
twright
October 29th, 2009, 11:44 PM
hello all,

well during a fsck scan it pointed that i have some disk errors and i dont think it fixed it would anyone know of a software that can do this for me i am still using 9.04 i have not upgraded yet as i would like to fix these first.

Thank you
If you run fsck when logged in a root (go into recovery console at boot) this should fix the errors.

However a much better idea would be to do a fresh install of Karmic; this would fix any errors and allow you the use the new, better ext4 filesytem as well.
Mia1990
October 30th, 2009, 02:16 AM
I think i am going to do a fresh install of Karmic.I have a lot of stuff to back up and was thinking i could just do a upgrade.So if i upgrade i can't use the new ext4 filesystem?
Thanks
twright
October 31st, 2009, 02:43 AM
I think i am going to do a fresh install of Karmic.I have a lot of stuff to back up and was thinking i could just do a upgrade.So if i upgrade i can't use the new ext4 filesystem?
Thanks
Yes, not easily at least. In any case this would still leave you with any disk errors intact.
khelben1979
November 9th, 2009, 12:24 PM
I think that Spinrite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinrite) would be able to solve your problem, unfortunately it's not free software.

SpinRite on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x_KlRlcqNI).
CAPLinux
November 9th, 2009, 04:36 PM
I think that Spinrite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinrite) would be able to solve your problem, unfortunately it's not free software.

SpinRite on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x_KlRlcqNI).

Oh man you stole my thunder. Spinrite isn't free, but it is the best drive maintenance and recovery tool out there. It is well worth the $89
Mia1990
November 11th, 2009, 01:01 AM
Thank you all spinrite came up on my search but because i know how most of the world thinks that windows is all there is i did not know how it would work with a linux based computer.Any other idea's?Thank you
khelben1979
November 11th, 2009, 09:31 AM
Thank you all spinrite came up on my search but because i know how most of the world thinks that windows is all there is i did not know how it would work with a linux based computer.Any other idea's?Thank you

SpinRite can fix your EXT3 partition. It does not only fix Windows partitions.