What is SA?

It’s a joke from the Simpsons

Thanks, that is a good starting point. All the GUIs I found have been deprecated, so I’ll go with the purely text-based approach. At least it will be trivial to copy it to my other machines. Fingers crossed!

I see. I should try that. Thanks

I did that on Windows. It worked. It did not work for me in Linux :(

Use badblocks to test