On 12/18/2010 01:26 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
Sounds good...will this also exercise the hardware enough to see if it has become flaky over the years? I have used floppy based drive testers that run for hours/days that also report if the drive is flaky over time with a lot of usage.
SMART will show such history.
I guess I will need to reformat the drive once this test is done....correct? Or does it put the original data back?
The data is (essentially) destroyed. FWIW, the mke2fs command has -c (and -c -c) flags which invoke the badblocks command before formatting the drive. See "man mke2fs".
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