Re: how to test disk for bad sector

[Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com>]

Thank David!

but it says PASSED

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Please note the following marginal Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   066   045   045    Old_age   Always   In_the_past 34 (Min/Max 29/34)

On Friday, August 28, 2020, 11:46:07 PM EDT, David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 13:00, Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> wrote:

Subject: how to test disk for bad sector

> i believe hard disk has bad sector

# smartctl -t short /dev/<device>
# smartctl -t long /dev/<device>
# smartctl -l selftest /dev/<device>

Documentation:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SMART
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.