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an organization i volunteer with[computer recycler] uses this program to erase donated hard disk drives and test the integrity at the same time. i believe they make four passes, and it works by writing to a sector, then reading back the sector and listening for change. any errors abouve a certain threshold are failed and torn apart for physical destruction...if any more expirenced editors care to add something about this procedure in 99bluefoxx ( talk) 17:42, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
shouldn't there be a disambiguation page mentiong that "badblocks" may also refer to the actual badblocks and not just some program used in a certain OS to deal with them? -- TiagoTiago ( talk) 12:31, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
1. The number of blocks tested at one time is very small (only 64K) If you increase this to a MB at a time with -c 1024, you can almost double the speed of the badblocks utility.
2. badblocks can't handle disks over 2TB in size.
Wikipedia should mention that.-- 71.194.190.179 ( talk) 18:51, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
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The lead says that it's a Linux utility. Isn't it actually a GNU utility? 83.104.249.240 ( talk) 01:08, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
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an organization i volunteer with[computer recycler] uses this program to erase donated hard disk drives and test the integrity at the same time. i believe they make four passes, and it works by writing to a sector, then reading back the sector and listening for change. any errors abouve a certain threshold are failed and torn apart for physical destruction...if any more expirenced editors care to add something about this procedure in 99bluefoxx ( talk) 17:42, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
shouldn't there be a disambiguation page mentiong that "badblocks" may also refer to the actual badblocks and not just some program used in a certain OS to deal with them? -- TiagoTiago ( talk) 12:31, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
1. The number of blocks tested at one time is very small (only 64K) If you increase this to a MB at a time with -c 1024, you can almost double the speed of the badblocks utility.
2. badblocks can't handle disks over 2TB in size.
Wikipedia should mention that.-- 71.194.190.179 ( talk) 18:51, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
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The lead says that it's a Linux utility. Isn't it actually a GNU utility? 83.104.249.240 ( talk) 01:08, 29 March 2018 (UTC)