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| author |   Andrey Maraev <andrew.maraev60@yandex.ru> | 2013-12-26 19:57:10 +0700 |
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| committer |   Erik Hanson <erik@slackbuilds.org> | 2014-01-07 11:13:56 -0600 |
| commit | 4016fa8d9d5469222de8a5d39e4c4a74167dea1d (patch) | |
| tree | 558e4c01153559f2a9e4a1325a9bcf202517e066 /system/diskscan/README | |
| parent | 1b4960b6698c05876d1aa7d0138dae1722fca016 (diff) | |
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system/diskscan: Added (tool to scan a block device).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/system/diskscan/README b/system/diskscan/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..44c4ac5beb --- /dev/null +++ b/system/diskscan/README @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +DiskScan is a tool to scan a block device and check if there are unreadable +sectors, in addition it uses read latency times as an assessment for a near +failure as sectors that are problematic to read usually entail many retries. + +Diskscan will only perform reads in its disk surface scan so it is not +destructive in any way and it will report on all the key metrics needed to +decide if the disk is good or not. + + |