On Sat, 2017-06-03 at 01:32 +0000, William Mattison wrote: > I tried badblocks last night. I didn't realize how long it would > take. After over 3 hours, I had to abort it to do something else. > > This morning, I retried it, this time with options to show its > progress. It took between 3 1/2 and 3 3/4 hours. Here are the > results: > =============== > bash.3[~]: badblocks -s -v /dev/sda > Checking blocks 0 to 1953514583 > Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): > done > Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found. (0/0/0 errors) > bash.4[~]: > =============== > I don't think this completely rules out the hard drive as the > villain, but it's now less of a suspect. Am I correct in guessing > that the non-destructive read-write option (option "-n") would take > over twice as long (7 1/2 or more hours)? > > Thanks, > Bill. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org I have not followed this thread closely, but did you check the harddisk cable. They are often a source for problems...
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