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. -- imalone
