[PLUG] Re: Has my disk gone bad?

[Kevin Falcone <kevinfal@seas.upenn.edu>]

>>>>> "BJ" == Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com> writes:

  BJ> While I don't know of any utilities designed specifically for
  BJ> disk diagnostics, a search of freshmeat might turn up something.

isn't this what bonnie and bonnie++ is for?
I believe they are intended to do benchmarking of filesystems, and as
such would surely stress the disc.

Oh, and you could just run INN serving a bunch of users :)

-kevin

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