Re: Superblock checksum problems

[Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>]

Henrik Holst <henrik.holst@idgmail.se> wrote:
> It would be good to have an analog to "memtest" but for PATA and SATA
> ports. Anyone seen something like that out there on the web?

Are you looking for `badblocks'?

There is also a `memtest.sh' from Doug Ledford. It's main intention is,
as the name suggests, to find memory problems. However, it does also
stress the disk a lot. In fact, it finds problems that occur somewhere
on the path from a disk to a CPU. If you increase its $NR_SIMULTANEOUS
to fill up your disk entirely, it should nearly do what you are looking
for (except for some blocks that are never touched because of filesystem
organization) :)


regards
   Mario
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