Re: how much time do I need to run badblocks

2011-09-23 Thread Arno Schuring
Long Wind (longwind2...@gmail.com on 2011-09-23 20:07 +0800): > I bought a 60G disk and test it with badblocks > > badblocks -vws /dev/hdb > > 6 hours has passed and it's still running That can happen. My last disk was a 2TB low-rpm disk. It took badblocks over 50 hours to complete the check. >

Re: how much time do I need to run badblocks

2011-09-23 Thread Long Wind
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Lisi 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

Re: how much time do I need to run badblocks

2011-09-23 Thread Lisi
On Friday 23 September 2011 13:07:54 Long Wind wrote: > I bought a 60G disk and test it with badblocks > > badblocks -vws /dev/hdb > > 6 hours has passed and it's still running > I can no longer wait and press Ctrl+c > It have finished with 3 test patterns > It says nothing about whether bad blocks

Re: how much time do I need to run badblocks

2011-09-23 Thread Jochen Spieker
Long Wind: > > I bought a 60G disk and test it with badblocks > > badblocks -vws /dev/hdb > > 6 hours has passed and it's still running > I can no longer wait and press Ctrl+c > It have finished with 3 test patterns > It says nothing about whether bad blocks are found or not It would have told y

Re: how much time do I need to run badblocks

2011-09-23 Thread mark
> I bought a 60G disk and test it with badblocks > > badblocks -vws /dev/hdb > > 6 hours has passed and it's still running > I can no longer wait and press Ctrl+c > It have finished with 3 test patterns > It says nothing about whether bad blocks are found or not > I have read its manual and get no

how much time do I need to run badblocks

2011-09-23 Thread Long Wind
I bought a 60G disk and test it with badblocks badblocks -vws /dev/hdb 6 hours has passed and it's still running I can no longer wait and press Ctrl+c It have finished with 3 test patterns It says nothing about whether bad blocks are found or not I have read its manual and get no answer about my