On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:39:05 -0500 Jerry McAllister wrote: >> Well, it would do some, but for the greatest effect, you would need: >> dump + rm -rf * + restore >> That would get it all.
> Of course, I should have re-emphasized that this is not needed. > You will not improve performance. Its only value might be to exercise > every used file block on the filesystem to make sure it is still > readable. And for that you don't need to nuke and rewrite things. You could of try changing the above command into 'rm -rfP *'. That would make sure everything on your file system is still readable. And it would give you a lot of time to think about it. :-) > Just doing the backup (which you should do anyway) will read up all > used file space (except what you might have marked as nodump). Actually, that way you won't get every sector on the drive - not unless the drive is full to the brim anyway. If you really just want to check the drive, use smartctl -t long /dev/whatever You could also try dd if=/dev/whatever of=/dev/null bs=1m The idea with the backup isn't a bad one either. Cause if your drive goes up in flames, you don't really care. You still have your data. Regards Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
