Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.39-1.1
Severity: wishlist
File: /sbin/badblocks
I need to badblocks-scan a 400Gb drive. It's been running for 13
hours and it's nowhere near done. Now I would really like to reboot
the machine.
How difficult would it be to give badblocks an option to resume
scans? I imagine that it outputs some status identifier if you
ctrl-c it, and then you can pass that to an -r flag of sorts to make
it start where it left off.
I think the identifier could be simple, e.g.
2r,12345678,0
meaning that it's reading and verifying block 12345678 in the second
iteration, and 0 bad blocks have been found.
2,3w,87654321,1
would mean one bad block has been found and we're at 87654321 during
the first part of the third iteration of the second pass (pass 0 is
implicit).
Thoughts?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages e2fsprogs depends on:
ii e2fslibs 1.39-1.1 ext2 filesystem libraries
ii libblkid1 1.39-1.1 block device id library
ii libc6 2.3.999.2-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcomerr2 1.39-1.1 common error description library
ii libss2 1.39-1.1 command-line interface parsing lib
ii libuuid1 1.39-1.1 universally unique id library
e2fsprogs recommends no packages.
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