Re: hard disc health checks

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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?

<snip>

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


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