HowTo: badblocks with progress indicator
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 5:34 pm
This "HowTo" is actually just there to satisfy TL;DR: "Too Long; Didn't Read"
In order to run badblocks (on GNU/Linux) on a disk that already has data on it, that must be kept, run the following command:
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In order to run badblocks (on GNU/Linux) on a disk that already has data on it, that must be kept, run the following command:
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$ badblocks -nsv /dev/sdX- -n: non-destructive, read-write test.
- -s: Show progress indicator
- -v: Verbose mode.