As I understand things, running badblocks(8) by hand isn't dangerous (unless you do write tests, in which case you will get a warning), but running e2fsck is. So: badblocks -vs /dev/hda1 is ok, though from cron not having the -s would probably be better. Sven _______________________________________________ LinuxManagers mailing list - http://www.linuxmanagers.org submissions: LinuxManagers@linuxmanagers.org subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.linuxmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxmanagers