hard disk integrity check

Fri Apr 14 13:56:02 UTC 2006

On 4/14/06, Balvinder Kataora <nine.socks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hello everyone,
>
> I have a second hand 20gb hard disk and would like to know how can I check
> it's integrity. Is there a program or method to find this out?
>

You can use badblocks to look for badblocks.

sudo badblocks /dev/hdb1
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