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I issued the sudo badblocks -nv /dev/sda6 yesterday. I just woke up and it's still like that.

The documentation says that the -n parameter specifies that the test should be non-destructive but takes a little longer time.

Is it working or is it frozen or what? Does anyone know?

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answered 2 Years ago ligdesig · Accepted Answer

You can watch per-process I/O activity with iotop. Install:

sudo apt-get install iotop

Then launch:

sudo iotop

Watch it for 30 sec. Does it show badblocks doing any I/O? If yes, then it is working, if not, it is likely frozen.

Next time you may launch badblocks with the -s parameter:

sudo badblocks -nsv /dev/sda6

this will show progress.