At 04:25 AM 30/11/2007, Jeremy Figgins wrote:
I have a USB external harddrive that I suspect is on its last leg. I would like some definitive way to determine the number of bad blocks. I've run "fsck /dev/sdb1 -c" several times, but the only output is:
/dev/sdd1: 11/30539776 files (9.1% non-contiguous), 1006495/61049000 blocks
where that first number (1006495) goes up with every run of fsck -c. Is that number the number of bad blocks? And if not, then how can I find out?
Hello Jeremy. You could use "badblocks" perhaps. I have used it successfully on "real" disks - I am not sure if it works on USB drives because I have not tried it. badblocks <device path> does a read-only test or badblocks -n <device path> does a "non destructive" read-write test man badblocks will help I'm sure. Regards, Denis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org