please recommend a disk-exercising program?

[Glen Barber]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 6:05 AM, John .<comp.john at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Glen, thanks for replying
>
>> You can use dd(1) to stress test disk I/O.  Something like this should work:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/${YOURDISK} of=/dev/null bs=1024k
>
> That will show me thruput. I need to see if bad blocks or similar are
> happening. Something like scandisk for instance.
>
> Maybe I'm thinking the wrong way. Maybe see if they have SMART and
> read from there?
>

Ah, I thought you wanted to stress test the throughput to get errors.

In that case, have a look at sysutils/smartmontools in ports.


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