Slight tangent, but once getting new flash, test it. I recommend using f3 on any new USB stick. It's in Fedora repo. The project is originally intended to identify fake flash. It'll report a larger capacity than it has flash memory for, and has firmware that does a loop. Super convenient that if you never hit the loop, you don't find out; and if you hit the loop, it overwrites and corrupts earlier data - sad panda. But it also will test for any kind of corruptions or read errors, not just bogus flash.
It's also reasonable to use it for "burning in" hard drives - it's just writing a bunch of pattern tests and reading them back in. It doesn't matter what file system you use to format the device. Format, mount, f3write /mnt then f3read /mnt. That's it. My opinion is anything brand new that has even one error, send it back. It's not like it's gonna get better with age! Details: https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3 https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
