From: Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@web.de>
To: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: disk testing
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 17:24:50 +0200
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> Am 26.07.2014 um 16:48 schrieb Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>:
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> What would you use to write/read/verify every sector of a hard disk? (I'm interested in really testing a disk, not in being lied to by S.M.A.R.T.)
>
> Given what I've got spare for testing, either a Win7 application, or some LiveCD would be most convenient.
Any Linux or BSD LiveCD should come with dd. Still you should save a copy of smartctl output before you run dd and compare it to smartctl output after running dd, if dd finishes without error at all.
Jan
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