[OT] Testing an SD card

[Colin Law]

On 17 August 2016 at 16:31, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have an SD card for my smartphone which I suspect to be defect. Is there a
> command to test this? (I can copy it with dd to a file, so far it works.)

If you suspect it to be faulty (which presumably means it has done
something odd) then just chuck it and get a new one. Even if it
appears to be ok then if it has failed in some way once then it will
fail again. Get a good make, it is false economy to get cheap ones. I
generally use Sandisk.

Colin