Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:22:34 +0800 From: Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim <ihsan_junaidi@yahoo.com.sg> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How do I know a disk is bad? Message-ID: <5135932470.20020919122234@yahoo.com.sg>
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Hello all,
Recent FreeBSD here.
How do I detect a bad sector on a disk. Are there any other utilities that
can be used to detect such error? I've used fsck before but I supposed
unless fsck comes up with a bunch or write/read errors, I can never know a
disk is good. Or when fsck does come with such messages, is the disk in an
inconsistent state?
The reason I ask this is because recently after making world, all file
operation (mv, cp etc.) from and to /home mounted at ad1s1e hung up and doing
kill -KILL would not cut it. I ran fsck a few times which required quite a
number of reboots just to make sure all is right. The mount point now works
as usual but I still a few doubts on how, all of sudden, things went well.
I would like to know how I can detect bad blocks on my disk and to
interpret fsck messages.
Thanks in advance.
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Thank you for your time,
Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim
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