From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.pcdesk.net (mail.pcdesk.net [65.66.213.142]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B42C1A33E for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:54:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.95] ([70.58.191.30]) (AUTH: PLAIN jbahm@pcdesk.net, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3, 256bits, CAMELLIA256-SHA) by mail.pcdesk.net with esmtp; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:54:56 -0500 id 0000000000041D09.000000004BBE7AE0.00002197 Message-ID: <4BBE7AB3.4040006@pcdesk.net> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:54:11 -0600 From: "Joseph C. Lininger" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: an observation, and question References: <20100407200243.GA17401@romuald.net.eu.org> <7CC6CAF9ED6F46FAA35A5E65C8C12627@math.wisc.edu> <20100408000350.GA23117@romuald.net.eu.org> <84F41CEC6CFB42A7BEF10A3141B82ED3@math.wisc.edu> <20100408204115.GB2724@gnuked.clearwire.net> In-Reply-To: <20100408204115.GB2724@gnuked.clearwire.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:54:33 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 > Do you mean "fsck" or something else? fsck is a filesystem checker only, it doesn't check the actual physical media. For that, use the badblocks utility. You can run it yourself if you haven't yet built a filesystem, or you can have mkfs call it. It can do a read testing, write testing, and non-destructive write testing. - -- Yes means no and no means yes. Delete all files [Y]? Joseph C. Lininger, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJLvnqzAAoJEMh8jNraUiwq9EoH/iMKuQirADkBgHudaXQyFWVb GzdJh/kyXE3Qv4jkSxQRVDYnqyzCCofK3S0v6Tk7E0VL7Sh4+a9zxnangEwtl3PS JUIylfkvyvOdowlLdohDKevrHkoHaqL1oH2FSeTwdngC1HMpU+lOPmtxYDSXrQmK vMOw/LLWMSLlukcA+qa1fvg7j32zu8oOTZ2mInCCg6r7vboJuDzeluff1qRa7jz5 Y21hBFM4VXLcNimYmGxsXjJv6B2NgHuQZv33Ka7MKkganiZ0gb9mLDnGb2Ai7ra/ PUSdKpTFCWUHIq3PY2m66teRWnLiB5j/B7hb8j61IT4qFjuOIIZ9lhe8b7xwk9Y= =ZweQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----