Re: Cisco hardware question

[Brielle Bruns <bruns () 2mbit com>]

On 3/4/10 4:23 PM, Ben Carleton wrote:

> Kaveh:
>
> I can confirm with absolute certainty that fcsk is a Unix utility for
> determining if a hard disk is failing and optionally attempting a
> recovery. I have never heard of such output files, though. How big
> are they? If they are tiny, they could just be status reports or a
> save of the program's output. If they are large, they may represent
> backups of the flash memory.
>
> Ben

fsck is not just for failing hard drives.  fsck is used any time you 
want to check a disk (may it be ssd, optical, magnetic) for any kind of 
errors or inconsistencies.  It's a standard part of any UNIX toolkit.

On Linux systems with ext2/3, you'll see lost+found, which is where 
stuff ends up if it can't be connected to an actual file entry.  Sounds 
exactly like what those FSCK files are - DOS used to do this with scandisk.

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