hard disc health checks

[Ian Malone]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Ian Malone wrote:
> 
> 
>>Has anyone any suggestions for checking the physical
>>health of a hard disc?  Something analogous to the
>>"surface scan" in Windows Scandisk?
>>
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>>smartctl for the drive is fine.
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>>I'm currently taking steps to back up the data (and
>>recover some of the lost stuff), but I'd like to
>>have something solid to check whether I can trust it
>>in future, any thoughts?
>>
> 
> $ man badblocks
> 

Thanks.

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imalone