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Hardware • testing an USB-flash-stick 32 GB with the command "badblocks"

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Hello everyone,

I wanted to test if my approximately 30 GB USB flash drive is in good health.

I tested it with the following command:

Code:

sudo badblocks -wsv /dev/sdd
The USB flash drive was unformatted. And it even had no partition table. It was just empty.

I had thought, that the test would take a long time, maybe 1 hour or 5 hours.
Now I aborted the test after 40 hours.

The output from the terminal just before the abort looked like this:
k20240326-144829.png
What does this mean now?
That so far 12,950,471 blocks have been read, 12,927,936 blocks have been written, and 0 errors have occurred during comparison?

At the beginning (after about 1:53 hours), it displayed the following:
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I assumed that the test would be finished when it reached 12,927,936.
By now, that number has been reached. But it's still testing. Is this as it should be?

I would appreciate a response. Thank you very much.

Statistics: Posted by Ihamed — 2024-03-26 14:53 — Replies 0 — Views 26



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