On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > You didn't let Badblocks finish! The longest it has taken when I have used it > was 13 hours - and this was a while ago, so probably a 40G HDD. > > Let Badblocks finish, however long it takes, and if it still gives no error > message, ten all is well. It only reports if there _are_ errors, and not if > there are not. > > Lisi > >
i have just found out that it test 4 patterns but the manual doesn't include such info the running badblocks doesn't include them either (even with -v option) it seems to me that it will test forever it really is testing 4th and last pattern if i knew, i'd not press Ctrl+c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cab-gxzbw9qlo4vdybezl3cy_q0gat_kbedgti-gl974_rlg...@mail.gmail.com
