Re: Bug#949307: ITP: disk-filltest -- Simple Tool to Detect Bad Disks by Filling with Random Data

2020-01-21 Thread Timo Bingmann
On 21/01/2020 12.40, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 06:30:01PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: >> The simple tool disk-filltest can help, together with S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, >> to >> check disks periodically and thus be forewarned about coming failures. The >> function of disk-fi

Request for packaging two simple tools: disk-filltest and digup

2020-01-19 Thread Timo Bingmann
, they can be written back to the digest file. Both are highly portable, have no library dependencies, and are trivial to compile (first only a Makefile, second a autoconf/automake setup). If someone would be interested in packaging them, please ping me back. Best Regards, Timo Bingmann