From: a.smith
Date: September 13 2010 2:11pm
Subject: Re: Crashed Table - How to report/prevent?
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Why not use the mysql tool, mysqlcheck:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqlcheck.html