[PLUG] Looking For Software to Check A Hard Drive

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Mark Phillips wrote:

> Any recommendations? I don't care about the data on the drive now, as I
> have sucked it all off to my new hard drive.

   In addition to the other suggestions you can use cfdisk to repartition it,
then run mkfs-ext3 (if that's the filesystem you want to use). The options
-c and -v check for bad blocks and provide verbose output.

Rich