Re: what's the linux equivalent of scandisk?

Subject: Re: what's the linux equivalent of scandisk?
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 19:44:11 AKST

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On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 19:23, Scott Johnson wrote:
>
> Just wondering. I'm wanting to do a HD scan to check for bad sectors and
> surface damage. Is there a Linux equivalent to the Windows scandisk
> program?
>
> Linkage? HOWTO? Anything would be appreciated.

'badblocks', available for Debian, try 'man badblocks' to see if it
installed on other distros, or rpm -q ?

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