what the fsck ?

[David J Patrick]

my hdb drive show strange symptoms; occasionally, when reading the 
drive, the box will lock up solid.
This behaviour is intermittant. I just umounted the drive and ran fsck 
on two partitions.
hdb7 (10gig ext3) came up clean but hdb1 (6gig vfat) had problems;

root at PIII500:/mnt/hda8/djp# fsck /mnt/hdb1
fsck 1.35-WIP (21-Aug-2003)
dosfsck 2.10, 22 Sep 2003, FAT32, LFN
Reclaimed 333 unused clusters (1363968 bytes).
Free cluster summary wrong (658356 vs. really 662047)
1) Correct
2) Don't correct
? 1
Leaving file system unchanged.
/dev/hdb1: 12380 files, 358084/1020131 clusters

can fsck correct errors on vfat ?
Are there other drive health tools I should know about ?

thanks,
djp


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