From: | Lacey Powers <lacey(dot)leanne(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Jan Lentfer <Jan(dot)Lentfer(at)web(dot)de> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: disk testing |
Date: | 2014-07-26 19:14:16 |
Message-ID: | CAA7NH19e-_QLtDxrgAxddFgiEEGFxVtXPiU+GBf-P-Mm27RV9A@mail.gmail.com |
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I have found badblocks useful as well for testing the health of disks. You
can find it on the System Rescue CD
http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage
And here is a description of it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badblocks
Hope that helps. :)
Lacey
On Jul 26, 2014 8:25 AM, "Jan Lentfer" <Jan(dot)Lentfer(at)web(dot)de> wrote:
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> > Am 26.07.2014 um 16:48 schrieb Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com>:
> >
> > 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.
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> 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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