On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Stephen wrote: > Look for Bonnie++ its for hdd testing > I found it, but I can't find a way to specify which hard drive to test. Based on reading the man page and some googleing, I think it only tests the drive with the root file system. I don't see an option to tell Bonnie to test a usb drive. If you know of one, please let me know. Mark > On Dec 18, 2010 12:56 PM, "Mark Phillips" > wrote: > > I have an older hard drive (WD1200VE - 120 GB) that use to be in my > laptop, > > but I ran out of room so I replaced it with a larger drive. I have the > > WD1200 in one of those nifty ez-upgrade USB drive enclosures and it > mounts > > and works just fine. I need some portable back up space, so I thought I > > would use this drive. However, I would like to test it (thoroughly, > whatever > > that means) to see if it has any problems before I use it as a backup > drive. > > I am looking for either a command line tool or gui that I can run on a > > Debian machine to exercise the drive and find any errors. An automated > test > > suite that I can setup and run in the background (ie does not suck up the > > whole machine to run it) for a few hours/days to test the drive, log > errors, > > fix those errors that can be fixed, etc. Any recommendations? I don't > care > > about the data on the drive now, as I have sucked it all off to my new > hard > > drive. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >