[nflug] drive integrity check

[Eric Benoit]

Thanks, I'll try both


Jason Lasker wrote:

>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.
>
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>Eric Benoit
>Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:17 PM
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>Subject: [nflug] drive integrity check
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>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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