How to Install and Uninstall diskscan Package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "diskscan" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install diskscan on openSuSE Tumbleweed


    
        
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                sudo zypper refresh
            
                    
    
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                sudo zypper install
            
                        
                diskscan
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "diskscan" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall diskscan on openSuSE Tumbleweed:


    
        
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                sudo zypper remove
            
                        
                diskscan
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the diskscan package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Information for package diskscan:
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Repository : openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
Name : diskscan
Version : 0.20-3.12
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 124.3 KiB
Installed : No
Status : not installed
Source package : diskscan-0.20-3.12.src
Upstream URL : https://github.com/baruch/diskscan
Summary : Scan disk for bad or near failure sectors
Description :
DiskScan is a Unix/Linux tool to scan a block device and check
if there are unreadable sectors, in addition it uses read
latency times as an assessment for a near failure as sectors
that are problematic to read usually entail many retries. This
can be used to assess the state of the disk and maybe decide
on a replacement in advance to its imminent failure. The disk
self test may or may not pick up on such clues depending on
the disk vendor decision making logic.