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Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Core system check

Is there any (easy) way of checking the integrity of the core system?

I'm having a few problems running, compiling and installing a few applications and am beginning to suspect a disk corruption.

As an alternative to the integrity check, is there a way of redownloading latest versions and reinstalling all supposedly installed apps, without doing it piecemeal?

japetto

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From: Chicago, IL US

Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 183

Re: Core system check

What filesystem are you using?

Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: Core system check

ext3

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: Core system check

For file system check:

touch /forcefsck
reboot

Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: Core system check

My understanding of fsck is that is verifies the integrity of the file system, not the files, ie if a number inodes end up getting deleted, the OS would be partially degraded, but the filesystem would be fully intact.

I want to be able to restore the OS to its working state, assuming its not beyond "recovery".