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developer:hardware_storage_error_detection [2016/09/06 00:31] henri [Notes specific to using badblocks on a mac OS X system.] |
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| - Download and install [[http://brew.sh|brew]] for Mac OS X. | - Download and install [[http://brew.sh|brew]] for Mac OS X. | ||
| - Install e2fsprogs and the dependencies with brew which will include the badblocks program. | - Install e2fsprogs and the dependencies with brew which will include the badblocks program. | ||
| - | $ brew install e2fsprogs | + | - ''$ brew install e2fsprogs'' |
| Example of usage : | Example of usage : | ||
| - Ensure any disk and/or partition(s) on which you are going to check for bad blocks are unmounted | - Ensure any disk and/or partition(s) on which you are going to check for bad blocks are unmounted | ||
| - | - Set the PWD to the the newley installed sbin directory. You may need to select the correct version for your install. | + | - Set the PWD to the the newley installed sbin directory. You may need to select the correct version for |
| - | $ cd /usr/local/Cellar/e2fsprogs/1.42.13/sbin | + | your install. |
| + | - ''$ cd /usr/local/Cellar/e2fsprogs/1.42.13/sbin'' | ||
| - Run bad blocks on your disk device. The -s flag will show progress. Further usage information is available from the man page. | - Run bad blocks on your disk device. The -s flag will show progress. Further usage information is available from the man page. | ||
| - ''$ sudo ./badblocks -sv /dev/rdisk5'' | - ''$ sudo ./badblocks -sv /dev/rdisk5'' | ||