STeve Andre' wrote:
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>    Is there a port which does non-destructive reads of a disk?  I've been
> looking in the ports tree and openports.se but don't see any.  I have 
> two 320G disks that I need to verify are good before Monday and was
> thinking that a random read test would be better than just walking
> through them with dd. 
>
> (I love that the ports collection is big enough that I can't remember
> what everything is, anymore)
>
> tnx, STeve Andre'
>
>
>   
e2fsprogs has badblocks, which can do either a destructive or 
non-destructive test

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