<p>Thanks, Lonni. That looks like what I'm after, didn't know about it. And it's already installed as part of e2fsprogs.</p><p> </p><p>(Sorry if this comes thru as HTML or in some other horrid thing. I'm temporarily forced to use my provider's webmail client and it's testament to the raw power and sophistication of Ajax and Web 2.0 - which is a way of saying that it's completely dysfunctional and utterly useless for anything other than the most trival tasks.)</p><p> </p><p>Michael</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On Dec 6, 2007, <strong>netllama@gmail.com</strong> wrote: </p><div class="replyBody"><blockquote style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 1.8ex; border-left: #267fdb 2px solid">badblocks ?<br /><br />On 12/6/07, Michael Hipp <michael@hipp.com> wrote:<br />><br />><br />> Does anyone know of any Linux software to continually test a hard drive (for<br />> bad sectors and such)? I'm thinking of something like the hard drive<br />> equivalent of memtest86.<br /></blockquote></div>