# Linux disk

**URL:** <https://community.unix.com/t/linux-disk/166992>\
**Category:** Linux\
**Created:** [November 20, 2006, 5:18am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/linux-disk/166992 "2006-11-20T05:18:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Carmen123](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/carmen123/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Carmen123](https://community.unix.com/u/Carmen123)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 5:18am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/linux-disk/166992/1 "2006-11-20T05:18:10Z")

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Hi, how to check health disk on linux system ?  
I wish to know the equivalent of chkdsk command in lnx and its manual user.  
tkx.

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**Author:** ![grial](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/grial/32/379_2.png) [@grial](https://community.unix.com/u/grial)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 11:57am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/linux-disk/166992/2 "2006-11-20T11:57:32Z")

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I think you mean filesystem health: e2fsck if you are using ex3, which is the default in almost every dist.  
Regards.

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**Author:** ![zlp](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/zlp/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@zlp](https://community.unix.com/u/zlp)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/linux-disk/166992/3 "2006-11-23T21:29:22Z")

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badblocks  
badblocks is used to search for bad blocks on a device (usually a disk partition).

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**Author:** ![zlp](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/zlp/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@zlp](https://community.unix.com/u/zlp)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/linux-disk/166992/4 "2006-11-23T21:31:21Z")

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> [@grial](#):
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> I think you mean filesystem health: e2fsck if you are using ex3, which is the default in almost every dist.  
> Regards.

e2fsck is used to ex2!

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**Author:** ![grial](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/grial/32/379_2.png) [@grial](https://community.unix.com/u/grial)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/linux-disk/166992/5 "2006-11-24T02:19:12Z")

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> [@zlp](#):
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> e2fsck is used to ex2!

Read man pages before stating such things:

```plaintext
E2FSCK(8) E2FSCK(8)

NAME
       e2fsck - check a Linux ext2/ext3 file system

SYNOPSIS
       e2fsck [-pacnyrdfkvstDFSV] [-b superblock] [-B blocksize] [-l|-L bad_blocks_file] [-C fd] [
       -j external-journal ] [-E extended_options] device

(...)

```

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**Author:** ![zlp](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/zlp/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@zlp](https://community.unix.com/u/zlp)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 7:25am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/linux-disk/166992/6 "2006-11-24T07:25:36Z")

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ha ,i am sorry

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**Author:** ![Carmen123](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/carmen123/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Carmen123](https://community.unix.com/u/Carmen123)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/linux-disk/166992/7 "2006-12-01T12:52:48Z")

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Yeah, I just was search this. Tkx