Looking For Software to Check A Hard Drive

[Mark Phillips]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> 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" <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
> 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
>
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