Good morning, I wanted to know which applications to install to be able to control external USB hard drives, I’m formatting old hard drives in ext4 and I wanted to know the state of shape of the aforementioned thank you.
I’m not sure if I understood correctly what you actually want to achieve, but I’ll guesswork a little. You don’t really need to install specific “additional” software, unless you are aiming at doing something “out of the ordinary”: Linux is a powerhouse on its own.
Wanna check badblocks?
sudo badblocks -v /dev/sda10 > badsectors.txt
Wanna check SMART feedback from disks?
sudo smartctl -H /dev/sda10
If you need to do advanced partitioning/disk management, go play with GParted.
HTH
If you want to format and/or partition… as LDC mentioned, Gparted is really good. As I’m on KDE, I use KDE Partition Manager.
thanks for the replies, I just wanted to check a hard disk, I think there are some corrupted parts and I wanted a software capable of showing me if there are corrupted parts or maybe repairing them.
You could use the mentioned Gparted to run a filesystem check on a partition.
Note that the partition needs to be unmounted.
Double tap or right-click on a partition. From the pop up menu choose Check and then apply the operation on the toolbar.
See the details for the operation in the windows which now pops up.