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On Fri, 29 May 2026 12:57:05 +0100, Mike Scott wrote:

> My bad - I meant `badblocks`.

I stopped using badblocks when I found it couldn?t handle drives
larger than about 4TiB.

I wrote my own utility for doing scans
<https://gitlab.com/ldo/scan_disks/>, that can work on larger drives.
This only does reads for now.

For writes, I still use dd.

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