Jon Simola wrote:
Not claiming to be an optimal solution (dd is faster), but does a read pass across the entire partition: $ sudo md5 /dev/rwd0c MD5 (/dev/rwd0c) = a85c2c67475f983a98007fd9a47378b7
I think part of what he wanted about badblocks is that it does a non-destructive write test as well as a read test.
