On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 at 09:03, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 7:23 PM George R Goffe via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for the responses.
Richard: it takes that long because of the "-c -c" option. As Berend says, it runs badblocks which "beats up a block at a time" writing/reading patterns... looking for errors. The man page for mke2fs is helpful.Sorry, I see it now in the subject line, I just didn't see it in the body of the original mail...Would using smartctl to let the drive check itself help?# smartctl --test=long /dev/sdc
Modern HDD'sautomatically remap bad sectors. You should see this in the SMART report.
My experience is that a few drives have a small number of bad blocks remapped but continue to work. Most just keep
generating more bad blocks and soon stop working, so you want to copy of the data ASAP.
SMART does not work with all USB cases. It is best to shove the drive into a desktop. If the drive is under warranty
you may need to run the vendor's diagnostics. Some will accept a smartctl report.
_______________________________________________Or you can initiate it and monitor the progress from the disk utility.Last option... If the case isn't too difficult to open temporarily install it to a desktop computer to speed things up.Thanks,Richard
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