badblocks -vw
Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Thu Dec 7 17:28:13 UTC 2006
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:57:24 +0800,
Hadders <fedora at workingwithit.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Just wondering if there's something for friendly to use than badblocks
> to test a disk?
You should be using smartmontools for routine monitoring. badblocks is for
burn in or extensive testing after a partial failure (as opposed to just
tossing the drive).
> Just doing a 'badblocks -vw /dev/sda' and it does 5 passes to ensure
> it's good, but it doesn't tell you where it's at....
I think the -s option helps with this.
> Does anybody use anything other than this to test a disk?
> Bought two new SATAII disks and want to make sure they're good before I
> start using them.
You might need a more recent version of smartmontools than what currently
comes with Fedora to handle sata disks.
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