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From: Detlef Sax <sax@noart.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: data-preserving HDD diagnostic program?
Date: 16 Aug 2024 16:38:57 GMT
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On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 16:20:07 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:
> On 16.08.2024 um 10:10 Uhr Winston wrote:
>
>> "badblocks"?  'pkg rquery %n badblocks' finds no such program.
>
> I haven't checked, but here it is listed:
> https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=badblocks&apropos=0&sektion=&manpath=freebsd-ports&format=html#end

pkg which /usr/local/sbin/badblocks
/usr/local/sbin/badblocks was installed by package e2fsprogs-core-1.47.1

Sorry but I assume it's only for Linux-filesystems.

sysutils/smartmontools seem to me the right tool to examine a disk on
hardware issues.


Detlef
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