file system corruption

[Scot L. Harris]

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 12:17, chris wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to figure out whats going on with a system of mine, I have a 
> fairly cheap IDE drive in it (160GB Western Digital),  but over the past 
> 2 weeks 2 of the partitions ("/" and "/home") have been corrupted.  They 
> are both formatted ext3, and one of them is the root for FC4. 
> 
> I don't see any errors in /var/log/messages, and am not sure where to 
> look.  I just want to verify the drive is going out before replacing it. 
> 
> Can anyone point me in the direction of some sw tools are out there to 
> help in diagnosing the problem?
> 
> -chris

Check out smartctl to see if you can get info from your drive.  hdparm
may also provide some information.

You might check Western Digitals site to see if they have any diagnostic
tools.  Will most likely require you to boot from CD or floppy to run
those tools.