Re: hard disk failure

So far so good.
Make sure you ran dd against the WHOLE drive:
dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null
ET


Michael Havens writes:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com <
> kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>
>> Another (NON destructive) check you may to do:
>> as root:
>> dd if=/dev/{your partition} of=/dev/null
>> Your HD will (most likely) be OK if it finishes without other error than
>> "read beyond EOF" (or something like that)
>> ET
>>
>
> It finished with no error. The return was:
>

>      55285760+0 records in
>      55285760+0 records out 

>
> Is that a good sign?
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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