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[ale] what exactly does a long smart hdd test do?
- Subject: [ale] what exactly does a long smart hdd test do?
- From: mike at trausch.us (mike at trausch.us)
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 18:30:14 -0400
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On 05/11/2012 12:06 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> I looked at the man page for badblocks. badblocks -n looks promising.
> Can I run that on a mounted file system? Also, is there something I can
> use to test the swap area, which, in my case, is an 8 GB FILE? Or, will
> badblocks include this area in this case?
You should just boot with a live system and run a proper non-destructive
read-write badblocks run on it. That will give you a complete test of
the drive or partition's surface.
--- Mike
--
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
--- Carveth Read, ?Logic?
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