Ropers, You can find the badblocks utility prepackaged in "e2fsprogs".
Hope this helps, BadBlocks Hard Drive Validation and/or Destructive Wipe http://calomel.org/badblocks_wipe.html -- Calomel @ http://calomel.org Open Source Research and Reference On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:44:27PM +0200, ropers wrote: >Sometimes I find myself in need of a disk checking utility that can >check both disks with known *and unknown* filesystems, and/or that can >check even currently unpartitioned space on a disk. > >There exists such a program for Linux, called badblocks: >http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man8/badblocks.8.php >A command of "badblocks -svn /dev/devicename" allows me to scan all >kinds of disks, even some of these old Macintosh floppies and other >esoteric stuff. The "n" is for a non-destructive read and write scan. >Basically it scans the entire disk, and doesn't care what's on it, it >just reads every single bit of data on the device, then does its write >test and write back the original data. Sure, fsck can also scan disks, >but AFAIK it can't do a surface scan, much less of an unknown file >system, because fsck only "invokes file-system-specific programs". > >Thus far, I've mostly booted Linux Live-CDs and then issued "badblocks >-svn /dev/devicename" whenever I needed to do such checks. > >Is there a way to do the same thing with OpenBSD? I am not a >programmer, and anything exceeding script-kiddie level scripting will >probably be over my head. > >Many thanks and kind regards, >--ropers
