how to verify installation?

[Karl Larsen]

Randall J. Parr wrote:
> I have a Ubuntu hardy system which appears to have developed some bad 
> blocks and/or file corruption on an SATA drive.
>   
    You have a SATA Hard Drive that is bad.


> I have used fsck to fix the problem but it found a couple files with 
> multiply-chained blocks.
>
>   
    So what? Check it in a week and it will not even come up!
> Now the disk is running fine but I am concerned a have a couple bad 
> and/or missing files.
>
>   
How do you know the disk is running fine? You just said you have file 
curruption.

> On an RPM based system I can verify the installation against the package 
> files and find out which files are missing or different than in the rpm 
> file.
>
> How do I do the equivalent verification (or something similar) on a 
> Debian/Ubuntu deb based system?
>
> Thanks
> R.Parr, RHCE, Temporal Arts
> Portland, OR U.S.A.
>
> 	What I would do is buy a new hard drive and rsync or copy your Ubuntu to that.
>   

Karl

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