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MadMasta
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 Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject: Thorough Scandisk |
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I have a HD going out on my windows machine. I can't run scandisk using windows XP and want to use a linux equivelent. I want to check the drive, not just the filesystem. I've looked at fsck but I can't find a thorough option, or something of that nature.
Any suggestions?
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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MadMasta,
badblocks. It makes no attempt to use the filesystem, just tests each block.
Read since tests vary from readonly, non destrutive read/write testing to very thorough pattern tests, which are data destructive.
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MadMasta
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chris_g_g
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:23 am Post subject: badblocks on whole disk |
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I've been looking into badblocks. All the examples I've found on the net and info in the man pages points to using it on partitions (e.g. /dev/hda1).
Is it possible to use the destructive read/write test on a whole disk (e.g. /dev/hda)? Is this even a sensible idea? As I see it badblocks writes a load of hex to the disk and then reads it back and checks for consistency. Is there a reason to create a partition first? I don't care about whatever's on the disk. I'm just looking for a way to check old second hand disks for problems.
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