[ale] hard drive integrity

[Danny Cox]

Geoffrey,

On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 10:41, Geoffrey wrote:
> anyone know of any tools that can verify the integrity of a hard drive? 
>   I know you can check for bad blocks via mkfs, but I'm curious if 
> anyone knows of any other linux based tools.

	mkfs calls badblocks, which has a man page.  You can specify read-only,
destructive-write, or non-destructive-read-write modes.  Notice the
warning if you're gonna want to use it's output with e2fsck later,
though.

	Start it, and stand well back ;-)

-- 
kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny


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