On Friday 23 September 2011 13:07:54 Long Wind wrote: > I bought a 60G disk and test it with badblocks > > badblocks -vws /dev/hdb > > 6 hours has passed and it's still running > I can no longer wait and press Ctrl+c > It have finished with 3 test patterns > It says nothing about whether bad blocks are found or not > I have read its manual and get no answer about my question > > I'm still not sure if the disk is reliable
You didn't let Badblocks finish! The longest it has taken when I have used it was 13 hours - and this was a while ago, so probably a 40G HDD. Let Badblocks finish, however long it takes, and if it still gives no error message, ten all is well. It only reports if there _are_ errors, and not if there are not. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
