hi all,

i have to check a hard drive as its producing bad superblock errors so a client was telling me so im now in the process of checking for bad sectors

im running this command -

fdisk -l

to get the list of all my hard drives in my system

~]# badblocks -v /dev/sdc > /badsectors.txt
Checking blocks 0 to 488386583
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test):

is this now checking for bad blocks on my hard drive, i see the hard drive led flashing but when i cat that file i see nothing in it

or maybe i need to press enter to start of the process?

cheers,

rob

From man badblocks
You are only redirecting stdout to the file. stderr will continue to be displayed on the monitor.