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. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I cna ytpe 300 wrods pre mniuet!!!
