[plug] Stressing a disk

[levsky at rave.iinet.net.au]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 03:14:22AM +0000, Derek Fountain wrote:
> Is there a way to stress test a disk? I've got one which is behaving a bit 
> strangely. No bad sectors reported, but reiserfs gags when it's used as part 
> of a logical volume, and over night it appears to have lost it's partition 
> table.
> 
> I feel it deserves a 24 hour workout before I chuck it away. Any utils to do 
> that sort of thing?

You could try using the cerebus test suite or Bonnie++.

Cheers

Mark

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