[aclug-L] Re: need info..

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 1) how do you force the hard drive to defrag.  I erased all that junk
> and it still has not reached the count from booting up to defrag and
> force check, and I do not intend on hitting the button to make it force.

Unmount the drive (possibly by booting into single user mode if need be),
then run:

  fsck /dev/hda1

Or replace hda1 with the appropriate partition name.


> 2) my disk of suse 6.2, has bad sectors in it, linux nor dos will read
> it.  When the computer boots from it, it just seeks and seeks and does
> little else.

Sounds like it's time to throw it away.


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