Hello, Yes, it is clear that one can do read-only tests that do not destroy data. However, in this case, it seems to me more useful to do read/write (it is actually write/read) tests as it appears that the problem is more likely in the write ...
I have never heard of a non-destructive read/write test, which I assume reads then rewrites the disk. Although that is clever and could be useful, in this case it sounds to me risky on a disk that seems to be failing. Best regards, Kern On 06/29/2014 09:04 PM, John Stoffel wrote: > Kern> 3. Run read/write disk tests on your USB disk (note: this will > Kern> destroy any existing data). > > This isn't quite right. You can run read-write tests on a quiescent > filesystem (ie unmounted) without problems: > > badblocks -svn /dev/sd? > > will scan the entire disk using non-destructive read-write mode. But > as Kern said, check your logs as well. > > John > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
