Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 11:05:08 +0100 From: "John ." <comp.john@googlemail.com> To: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please recommend a disk-exercising program? Message-ID: <abc784790906070305k77a9f067p6f3f0d22cd94b74e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310906070300g5aa63988m370e6362829b2f28@mail.gmail.com> References: <abc784790906070243t419d8ebbp59a68af23e902004@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310906070300g5aa63988m370e6362829b2f28@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Glen, thanks for replying
> You can use dd(1) to stress test disk I/O. =A0Something like this should =
work:
>
> dd if=3D/dev/${YOURDISK} of=3D/dev/null bs=3D1024k
That will show me thruput. I need to see if bad blocks or similar are
happening. Something like scandisk for instance.
Maybe I'm thinking the wrong way. Maybe see if they have SMART and
read from there?
cheers
--=20
John
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