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On Monday 25 January 2010 16:15:52 felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 06:27:57AM -0800, Jon Hardcastle wrote: |
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> > There must be some bonnie esk tool that will read/write |
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> > every combination to every block but keep the data safe |
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> > after to flush out any sector issues etc. |
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> If you want to write without destroying data, just use dd to create a |
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> file as big as the empty space, delete, repeat. If you want to make |
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> sure it thrashes with lots of seeks, create lots of small files, then |
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> delete them randomly, copy them randomly, rewrite in place randomly, |
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> and have many different tasks doing the same thing. |
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> But it all seems rather pointless to me, especially if it's a live |
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> system; if you don't trust the drive, get your data off there and test |
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> it properly. |
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There's also sys-apps/smartmontools and the tests that you can run with it may |
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reveal something meaningful if the disk is seriously bad. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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