block corruption question

Hello,
working on redhat linix 6 with 8i oracle db. Wanted to find out how to figure out if database has block corruption.
and how to resolve / fix it. I believe i can use dbverify but whats the syntax for that. is there a white paper on that?

thanks
Jigar

[Edited by jlakhani on 11-09-2000 at 01:16 PM]

u can take the help of dbverify.
on the prompt, u run dbv file= log= blocksize=

I understand that but what is the syntax for dbverify help?

dbv help=y