[plug] Stressing a disk

[Harry McNally]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 10:48:26 +0800 levsky at rave.iinet.net.au wrote:

> 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++.

Thanks Mark

With this prompt I located more tools:

http://ltp.sourceforge.net/tooltable.php

All the best
Harry

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