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Revision as of 17:41, 17 February 2012
Contents
Overview
Runs hdparm -t, seeker and Nates dd script.
By default each test is run 3 times to get a good running average.
Outputs are cleaned up to provide usable information
For Nates dd test you will need to have the drive mounted and listed in fstab
Script
[javascript,n]
- !/bin/bash
testpath=`grep $1 /etc/fstab | awk '{print $2}'` testcount=3
echo "Testing hdparm -t $1" for i in `seq 1 $testcount`; do hdparm -t $1 | grep "Timing" done
if [ `which seeker 2>/dev/null` ] then echo "Testing seeker $1" for i in `seq 1 $testcount`; do seeker $1 | grep "Results" done else echo "Seeker is not installed, please install from rpmforge: 'yum install seeker'" fi
if [ `which pv 2>/dev/null` ] then echo "Testing DD pv" echo "Write Test" for i in `seq 1 $testcount`; do sync dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=2048 2>/dev/null | dd of=$testpath/ddfile 2>&1 | grep copied done echo "Read Test" for i in `seq 1 $testcount`; do sync cat $testpath/ddfile | pv -trb -s 2G > /dev/null done rm -f $testpath/ddfile else echo "PV is not installed, please install 'yum install pv'" fi
Usage
[bash,n]
sh hdtest <drive path>
What to change
testcount This should be set to the number of times you want this test to run.
