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From: David Haller <gentoo@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:53:15
Message-Id: 20200617152730.nvfptsmhhi66d3w3@grusum.endjinn.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good. by Dale
1 Hello,
2
3 On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, Dale wrote:
4 [..]
5 >For the /dev/one, I found some which seems to work.  They listed further
6 >down.  I think my google search terms was poor.  Google doesn't have ESP
7 >for sure.  O_o
8 [..]
9 >dd if=<(yes $'\xFF' | tr -d "\n") of=
10
11 This is correct but _much_ slower than my program. I get about
12 1.1-1.2GB/s with that and with that 'yes' I get only about 47 MB/s...
13
14 >root@fireball / # cat /root/freq-commands | grep man
15 >print man pages to text file
16 >man <command> | col -b > /home/dale/Desktop/smartctl.txt
17 >print man pages to .pdf but has small text.
18 >man -t <command> > /home/dale/Desktop/smartctl.pdf
19
20 $ man -l -Tps -P-pa4 $(man -w smartctl ) | ps2pdf - smartctl.pdf
21
22 Use e.g. '-P-pletter' for letter paper size.
23
24 >It's amazing sometimes how wanting to do one thing, leads to learning
25 >how to do many other things, well, trying to learn how anyway.  LOL 
26
27 *g*
28
29 -dnh
30
31 --
32 I have described my half-hearted attempts at housekeeping as "the
33 minimual effort required to prevent the fungus from achieving
34 sentience." -- Steve VanDevender