how to verify installation?

[Brian McKee]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>    I have never lost a single file or had bad blocks on any of my hard
>> drives. Your going to say it could be that  the file system is just
>> bad.  I use ext3 and have never had a bad block ever.
>>
>>     This guy wants to find out how many files are lost. One file is
>> enough for me to declare a hard drive bad.
>
> I'll buy that.

Yep - and no system tool can report on your own documents and settings etc...

FWIW, I usually try to do something that will write to every sector of
a new (to me) drive before I start using it.  badblocks read-write, dd
if=/dev/zero or spinrite to exercise the whole disk.  Gives the disk
itself a chance to review every sector for errors, and warms it up
nicely to see if that causes problems too.

Brian