[plug] Stressing a disk

[levsky at rave.iinet.net.au]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 04:26:10PM +0800, Harry McNally wrote:
> 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
> 

Woo - that's an awesome list of stuff.

Cheers

Mark


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