[Gllug] Ubuntu 32 bit or 64bit for Windows 7

[Dennis Furey]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 08:34:03AM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
>    I test a secondhand drive by creating a single partition covering the
> entire disc then formatting it using
> 
> mke2fs -c -c /dev/hda1    (or /dev/sda1)

You can also invoke the badblocks (8) utility directly without
partitioning or formatting the disk, and then create multiple
partitions or format it with something other than an ext2 filesystem
later.

> this will take a very long time writing then reading different patterns to
> the entire disc, and will report any errors.

yes, about 1 terabyte per day in my case, which is with a USB2
interface
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