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badblocks in fedora showing status and progress
$ badblocks -sv /dev/sdX
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This command will run badblocks in verbose mode, showing status and progress while scanning the device /dev/sdX for bad blocks.

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.

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