Disk Utility?

[desNotes]

Is there a disk checking utility that is accessible from the command-line? Something similar to chkdsk on Windows that will tell me how much space I have and if there is any corrupt files, etc.?

Thanks,

desNotes

[chopin1810]

I don't think that there is such a utility in UNIX. I don't really think that there's too much of a need for one either. It's just like the fact that you don't need to defragment a Linux file system -- some things just don't happen.
By the way, what distribution are you running? Unless you are running without xorg there's no reason that you couldn't check disk space etc from KDE or Gnome.

[drakebasher]

fsck is the filesystem check command. It in turn will run the various filesystem format-specific checks. Do 'man fsck' for more info.

As for space availability, try df and du.

And one more command well worth knowing is 'apropos' (just do 'apro <tab>' and let Linux figure out how to spell it!). apropos is Greek or something for "about" so it will list commands that are "about" whatever you enter as an argument. So if you wanted a command "about" filesstem checking, you could do

apropos filesystem

which would produce a huge number of candidates. To reduce the field a bit, maybe this would work:

apropos filesystem | grep check

[desNotes]

I am installing Debian but I think one of my SCSI drives may have problems or be bad.

I tried to install directly on my two SCSI drives but the installation disk kept stopping in the same place (other distros also). I added an IDE disk and got it installed (no xorg yet) but wanted to try to pin down which disk is having problems.

[drakebasher]

Here's another command that I know little about, but it may be useful: hdparm