hard drive burn-in

[Jarod Wilson]

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:19 -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
> I picked up some refurbished hard drives for a personal project and was 
> curious to know what are your favorite tools and techniques for stress 
> testing a new drive? Some people do this as a matter of course on all 
> new drives. I've heard of SpinRite being used for this. As there isn't 
> any need for exhaustive data recovery attempts on a new drive, that 
> seems overkill. Probably using dd to write to every block of the raw 
> device, while using SMART monitoring to notify of any bad sectors ought 
> to do it.

I'm partial to running mkfs with full read/write badblocks checking.
Basically, make a single partition covering the whole disk, then:

# mkfs.ext3 -c -c /dev/sdx1

(iirc)



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