Mandrake scandisk

[M.Arthur]

Can not locate scandisk.
Where is scandisk located in Mandrake
Maurice

[endoalpha]

Scandisk is a Microsoft Windows program....

[trilarian]

As stated above, scandisk is a win prog. The command you want is fsck. You first need to know what type of file system it is(ext2, ext3, reiserfs, etc.) Then unmount the partition "umount /path/to/mount/point" as root. Then run "fsck.ext2 /dev/hd**" where ext2 = fs type and ** is the partition label. If you don't know what the label is look in fstab("less /etc/fstab") and find the proper entry.

[Raoul_Duke]

Generally you will not need to fsck much as linux handles file placement better than windows ;)

[trilarian]

The only time I run fsck is when I get a power outage and my partitions are not cleany unmounterd. Once a month or so doesn't hurt, but is not completely necassary.