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Perform health checks on your hard disk (Linux)
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Perform health checks on your hard disk (Linux)

Check bad sectors

program: badblocks

sudo badblocks -v /dev/sdxy > badsectors.txt

S.M.A.R.T health checks

program: smartmontools

sudo smartctl --health /dev/sdx
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