Brent Saner on 14 Nov 2007 17:13:42 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] drive testing

  • From: "Brent Saner" <brent.saner@gmail.com>
  • To: heise2k@gmail.com, "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] drive testing
  • Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:13:34 -0500
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maybe i should put together a presentation on hard drive maintenance and recovery... :) anyone interested?

kamiza-
you need to understand that your drive's hardware is damaged. anytime it makes a noise like that, it's damaged. the longer you run it, the more damage you're causing. get yourself a nice USB external drive and image your drive to it (via the "2-minute non-destructive imaging guide" i posted yesterday). THEN, if you're still interested in testing the drive, try running:

badblocks -v /dev/<foo>

on it.  you can also run (if you're logged in as root- some repos make you run the command as root, for some reason)

bonnie++ -u <user>


it will then scan your drive and do bottleneck testing, read/write stresstesting, etc.

i know knoppix has badblocks. i THINK it also has bonnie++, but if not it's in the repos.

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