[ale] Setup & XConfigurator broken in my RedHat system...

[Gary Maltzen]

Assuming you have ext2 partitions, `man e2fsck` says the "-c" option will do this.

Remember to do this in *single-user* mode...

>Ahh... I knew there was the regular --verify command but I'd only used it when I had the
>.rpm package with me. In this case, my install is over ftp and I didn't have the rpms
>locally mounted. Turns out that rpm -Va just used the rpm database. So... in the process
>of checking files, it ran into actual disk errors (bad spots or sectors) in some of the
>files related to my broken stuff. Apparently new installs are just writing over the same
>screwed up area so that doesn't help. Is there a program I can run which will scan the
>drive (non-destructively) and mark new bad spots so new installs of the files will be
>written in valid areas of the drive?

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