#badblocks
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #badblocks from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-23 18:47 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-23 18:47 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #badblocks.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-23 18:47 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 22 public posts (spanning ~64010 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 04:00
Languages: English (15) · German (3) · Spanish (1) · Czech (1) · French (1) · Russian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.2
Top of the latest posts
#100DaysOfHomeLab #Day4of100 So another update from me, because sometimes things go slow. I've booted a #NixOS live image and the #badblocks program is running a check of my four 4TB drives (been running for 86 hrs and done 84% I think the
Can you fix bad sectors on a hard drive? Learn what SMART, badblocks, filesystem tools, and drive firmware actually do, and when to replace a failing disk. Full guide here: https://ostechnix.com/can-you-fix-bad-sectors-hard-drive-linux/ #Ba
#100DaysOfHomeLab #Day5of100 So yesterday when I got home I wasn't greeted by what I was expecting; I saw the #Ventoy selection screen instead of results of the #badblocks scans. I still have to ask the Mrs if she knew anything happened wit
What “badblocks” means
Wikipediabadblocks is a Linux utility to check for bad sectors on a disk drive. It can create a text file with a list of these sectors that can be used with other programs, like mkfs, so that they are not used in the future and thus do not cause data corruption. It is part of the e2fsprogs project, and a port is available for BSD operating systems.
“Badblocks” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#badblocks across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #badblocks straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/badblocks