Got a drive that's starting to show its age (sadly, at only about 2 years old!). It's a Maxtor OneTouch drive, which actually contains 2 500 GB drives and presents via USB as a single storage device. I started running badblocks on it a couple days ago, and it's still running. Only 61 bad blocks so far, which is good (4K blocks, reiserfs filesystem). Just wondering how long I should expect it to take - is there anything to help one calculate the run time? I'm doing the read-only test (since there's data on the drive). Command used is: badblocks -b 4096 -n -o bb.txt /dev/sdb1 Thanks, Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org