mbuesch / disktest

Hard Disk (HDD), Solid State Disk (SSD), USB Stick, SD-Card tester

Hi there 👋, this is Michael Büsch

I am a

• Rustacean
• Open Source and Free Software developer
• Professional embedded systems software developer

disktest's Issues

Add option to split test-file into multiple small files. (e.g. for FAT filesystem)

Older or limited filesystems such as FAT don't support huge files.
When not writing to a raw device, add an option to automatically split the test files into multiple smaller files (e.g. 4 GiB - 1).
Make the size of the files user selectable.

(Follow-up from #2)

Feature enhancement possibly ?

This looks interesting, https://github.com/bingmann/disk-filltest?tab=readme-ov-file.
I has an -U mode which may be an idea to incorporate in to your app (https://panthema.net/2013/disk-filltest/) which "The only option requiring more explanation is -U. In this mode, the tool will create the files random-######## as usual, but will immediately unlink() them from the file system (the directory stays empty). On Linux this is possible, because the tool can keep the file descriptors open and perform the usual write/read/verify sequence. The mode is very useful for batch checking, because the system will automatically free the used disk space when the program finishes, whether successfully or with an error!"

I prefer your app as it's rust. Just an idea. I would also apprecaite any pro's and con's of each app as they both seem to do a very similar job.

Release it as a library

It would be nice if this could be released as a library and the library itself provides the binary.
This would help developers that want to have such functionality on their software.