[YLUG] Data recovery End of the story ?

J. Roeleveld joost.roeleveld at ntlworld.com
Tue Jul 28 15:07:46 UTC 2009


On Tue, July 28, 2009 3:11 pm, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:20:23PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>
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> If you are sure you've got all the data off that you are going to,
> use smartctl to check the disk status, and badblocks with the -w
> and -f options to test it (plus -v -s to get more information about
> its progress).

Just for good measure, the usual disclaimer:

NOTE: using the "-w" option with badblocks WILL delete all data currently
on the drive

--
Joost




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