Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Massive e2fs corruption with 2.2.9/10? | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:00:01 -0600 | From | Larry McVoy <> |
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: > You can also read it back using random offsets within the file, something : > which sometimes catches an error or two: : > : > lmdd if=XXX bs=512 rand=120m count=1000 ipat=1 ^^^^^^^^^^ : : I grabbed a copy of lmdd and tried it on: : : (hirsch@pii) /tmp : lmdd if=test1.file bs=10m rand=500m ipat=1 : .. : (hang on, it's still churning away while I type this on the same box). : : Hey, Larry, I though it was supposed to stop on its own after 500MB? <g>
Nope. rand=500mb means "do randoms over the first 500mb of the file"; count=N means "stop after doing N i/o's".
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