diff --git a/pages/common/badblocks.md b/pages/common/badblocks.md index 2102c3f11..fbc8b59e6 100644 --- a/pages/common/badblocks.md +++ b/pages/common/badblocks.md @@ -14,3 +14,15 @@ - Search an unmounted disk for bad blocks with a destructive write test: `sudo badblocks -w {{/dev/sda}}` + +- Search an unmounted disk for bad blocks with a destructive write test and show verbose status: + +`sudo badblocks -svw {{/dev/sda}}` + +- Search an unmounted disk in desctructive mode and output found blocks to a file: + +`sudo badblocks -o {{/path/to/file}} -w {{/dev/sda}}` + +- Search an unmounted disk in desctructive mode with improved speed using 4K block size and 64K block count: + +`sudo badblocks -w -b {{4096}} -c {{65536}} {{/dev/sda}}`