2016-09-01 11:55 GMT+03:00 Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de>: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:44:19AM +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > Some people do a full systems check (i.e. badblocks) before entrusting a >> > drive with anything important. >> >> It is a good advice! I have already thought of this but I am sorry to >> acknowledge that, since the "old good times" of MS DOS 6.22, I never did >> this in Linux. :( >> […] >> So, can you, please, advice me about the program or utility that can do >> badblocks check for me? > > Badblocks is part of e2fsprogs. But since you’re using USB2, this will > really take a while. At best I get 39 MB/s out of it. Another way is a > S.M.A.R.T. test, methinks `smartctl -t full` is the command for that. But I > don’t know what exactly is being tested there. But it runs fully internal of > the disk, so no USB2-bottleneck. Others may chime in if I tell fairy tales.
Thank you for your advices. I will try both. > Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' > I cna ytpe 300 wrods pre mniuet!!! :)
