Hi, John On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 5:43 AM, John .<comp.j...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello list, > > Can anyone please recommend to me a program that will stress-test a > disk? If it matters, two are connected by firewire, another via usb. > Filesystem is ufs. I think I have a disk that might be about to fail, > but it only sometimes errors when under stress. I need to see if it > was a fluke or to really make it fail, so that I can get rid of it. >
You can use dd(1) to stress test disk I/O. Something like this should work: dd if=/dev/${YOURDISK} of=/dev/null bs=1024k -- Glen Barber http://www.dev-urandom.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/glenjbarber _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"