Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

[Towncat <towncat.towncat@gmail.com>]

On jan. 12, 19:20, Michael Shuler <mich...@pbandjelly.org> wrote:
> On 01/12/2008 11:40 AM, Towncat wrote:
>
> > /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2
>
> > where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for
> > approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really supposed
> > to be so slow, or is there something wrong? The machine is a Core Duo
> > 1,6, 2GB memory.
>
> Yes, and no.  badblocks -w is a full write-mode check - you could do a
> default read-only check, which would certainly be faster, but it all
> depends on how thorough you would like to be - you chose the most
> thorough check, so it will take a while, yeah.  Just over 3/3's (= 1/1 =
> done)?  ;)
> Í

Sorry, three quarters... :)

I thought I'd be thorough, since I can only do this now when it's
still empty.

Thanks, I'll just wait then :-)