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From: Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: data-preserving HDD diagnostic program?
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 21:26:08 +0200
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On 16.08.2024 um 16:38 Uhr Detlef Sax wrote:

> /usr/local/sbin/badblocks was installed by package
> e2fsprogs-core-1.47.1
> 
> Sorry but I assume it's only for Linux-filesystems.

IIRC it simply reads (and optionally) writes to the disk - regardless
of the content.
In the manpage are some options for parsing the read stuff to
filesystem programs, but this seems optional to me.

-- 
kind regards
Marco

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