badblocks -vw

Hadders fedora at workingwithit.com
Wed Dec 6 04:57:24 UTC 2006


Hi all,
  Just wondering if there's something for friendly to use than badblocks 
to test a disk?

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....

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.

H




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