format

I have a seperate USB drive(/dev/sdd). I formatted it as swap-linux partition & I used it as swap partition. Today Debian warns that read-write error occured in swap partition but I could not find a way to check(like fsck) whether there is a bad sector on device /dev/sdd? Is there any program to...

2.1 ghz cpu, 4gb RAM, 320gb HDD Hi, everyone! I'm completely new to linux, just to get that out of the way, and I have some concerns before I proceed. I'm a beginner when it comes to pc's in general; meaning i know what I can and can't do with my hardware restrictions, and am comfortable with...