Re: disk testing

From: Jan Lentfer <Jan(dot)Lentfer(at)web(dot)de>
To: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: disk testing
Date: 2014-07-26 15:24:50
Message-ID: 1C7EB8AA-3CBA-47C0-BD98-E1F9EF44A0D9@web.de
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> Am 26.07.2014 um 16:48 schrieb Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com>:
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> What would you use to write/read/verify every sector of a hard disk? (I'm interested in really testing a disk, not in being lied to by S.M.A.R.T.)
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> Given what I've got spare for testing, either a Win7 application, or some LiveCD would be most convenient.

Any Linux or BSD LiveCD should come with dd. Still you should save a copy of smartctl output before you run dd and compare it to smartctl output after running dd, if dd finishes without error at all.

Jan

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