Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?
On jan. 12, 22:20, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote:
> On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I did a
>
> > /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2
>
> Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives?
Well, you do have a point... But then, this is the only time I can do
this safely. When there's data on it, it's not that obvious.
Maybe I was a little paranoid. And of course, I was curious.
Thank you all. I needed patience:)
>
> > 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,
>
> Yes.
>
> > or is there something wrong? The machine is a Core Duo
> > 1,6, 2GB memory.
>
> CPU speed helps, I guess, but always the important factor in disk
> activity is the disk itself. A 10K or 15K RPM FC drive connected to
> a 4GBps HBA will do the bad block scan *much* faster than an IDE or
> SATA drive.
>
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>
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