disk scrubber for Linux?

[Tom Buskey]

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On 12/8/05, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> Anybody know of a disk-scrubber for Linux?  I'm talking
> about an app (typically a low-priority background task)
> that continuously reads your disks to detect bad blocks with
> the hope that you can do something about them before the
> situation becomes critical.  This is of particular interest
> with mirrored disks because bad blocks can silently render
> your supposedly fault-tolerant kit, um, less so...
>
> I've teoma'd and vivisimo'd and dogpiled and lycos'd and
> hotbotted and altavista'd, etc, but no joy.
>
>
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