[Gllug] Badblocks indicates disc is OK?...

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, John Winters wrote:

> I was about to throw away the failed disc and I just thought I'd test
> it.   I shoved it in a different machine, fdisk'ed it to create one
> large partition and then did:
> 
>     mke2fs -c -c /dev/hdb1
> 
> To my surprise the whole thing ran through (albeit taking *ages*) and
> didn't generate a single disc error.
> 
> So, have I got a duff disc or not?
> 
You should run a smartctl selftest on the disk.

smartclt -a /dev/whatever  to print out the information from the disk 

smartctl -X /dev/whatever to run an extended test

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