Am 2010-09-29 16:29, schrieb Jon Hardcastle: > Personally I would trust nothing less than a dammed good thrashing > from badblocks -svw ideally or -svn if the drive has data on it. > Then an smart offline check to be sure the pending/reallocated > sector counts have no increased. > > Before commissioning a new drive a do a badblocks -svw atleast 3 > times without any counters increasing (something there are bad > sectors I just want to flush them out early) then I do some short, > long and offline smart tests. > > Then I add to the array, then I run check a couple of times. To be explicit: This would mean to run "badblocks -svn" on md3 or sdb or sdb3 ? just to make sure I understand you correctly ... Does that step take long? Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
