Bug#660576: ITP: disktest -- verify disk integrity

[Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 13:35, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:

> I was under the impression that some SMART self-tests could also be
> destructive, but I think I must have been mistaken.

I have read this several times, but never encountered one, myself. I
know _old_ disks lost data if you enabled SMART as they would reserve
the first(!) few blocks for SMART storage, but other than that, I
never saw anything in the wild.


Richard