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Re: a bit OT: testing my hard disk



On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 03:52:20PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote:

> Since my debian has just crashed out with possible disk corruption on a
> newly bought HD, I'd like to get hold of a good hard disk testing util -
> can anyone suggest any good free utils? Something bootable from floppy
> and linuxy would be the best choice really.

You may want to check out `badblocks' (from the e2fsprogs package).

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