[nflug] drive integrity check

[Jason Lasker]

If your drive is capable and smartd is installed try smartctl.  Here is an
article www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983 
The brains for this are in the firmware on the drive.  This is at the drive
level, not the filesystem, and is not a substitute for the standard fsck
tools.


Jason Lasker
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-----Original Message-----
From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Eric Benoit
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:17 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: [nflug] drive integrity check

Does anyone know of a drive integrity check program on linux?  I may be
using Norton Ghost wrong, but I thought running the drive integrity check
would have picked up that a drive had 80 plus bad clusters ...that keep
growing, please forgive my ignorance, but I thought this was the sign of a
HDD on it's last leg.
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