Re: how to test disk for bad sector
On Saturday 29 August 2020 20:39:29 Marco Möller wrote:
> On 30.08.20 00:01, Long Wind wrote:
> (...)
>
> > [liveuser@localhost-live <mailto:liveuser@localhost-live> ~]$ sudo
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=8M status=progress
>
> (...)
>
> > 14386462720 bytes (14 GB, 13 GiB) copied, 151.001 s, 95.3 MB/s
> > dd: error writing '/dev/sda1': No space left on device
> > 1719+0 records in
> > 1718+0 records out
> > 14418915840 bytes (14 GB, 13 GiB) copied, 153.319 s, 94.0 MB/s
>
> Unfortunately, this looks bad for your disk, because you said in
> another post that your disk is supposed to provide a storage space of
> 320 GB. But in this test only 14 GB could be written to it and then it
> is claimed to already have been filled completely. So, in context of
> another post of yours, where you say that you could install a system
> to a new disk mounted to that same computer, you found the problem:
> the supposed to be 320 GB hard disk is either broken in a very strange
> way, or it is even a fake disk sold to you as a fraud.
>
> Wishing you good luck with your new disk and new installation!
> Marco.
Uh, I have to ask. Or maybe I came into the middle of what has become a
boring thread?
dd is a whole device writer, but his command line is to an existing
partition? His command line should not have had the 1 according to my
thinking. His whole disk might be 320 gigabytes as /dev/sda, but how
big is sda1?
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