How to test filesystem in Linux?

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I am planning to test if my linux setup is stable. And I want to test the filesystem of my linux? Is there any standard testing for linux filesystem?

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what do you mean by "test the filesystem"? Like stress-test? Integrity test?
You're looking for fsck. And you should ask this on superuser.
yes this belongs on superuser because as we all know servers don't have filesystems

Francisco Soto · Answer 1 · 2010-04-28 08:30:12Z

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Test how?

If you mean testing that it is correctly installed you may want to run fsck. Most systems run it at boot time though.

answered Apr 28 '10 at 8:30

Francisco Soto

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Bozhidar Batsov · Answer 2 · 2010-04-28 08:32:20Z

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I think your best bet might be the great Phoronix test suite.

answered Apr 28 '10 at 8:32

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Michael Borgwardt · Answer 3 · 2010-04-28 08:31:57Z

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e2fsck will check an ext2/ext3 filesystem for metadata integrity. There are similar tools for other filesystems.

answered Apr 28 '10 at 8:31

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Tim Post · Answer 4 · 2010-04-28 15:31:53Z

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You probably want bonnie++, a lot of file system developers use it to help measure performance.

answered Apr 28 '10 at 15:31

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