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benchmark a hard drive is failing on Fedora?

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When I try to benchmark a hard drive (from the Disk application on my fedora machine), I get:

Error opening /dev/sdc: Device or resource busy (udisks-error-quark, 0)

This disk work fine (from GsmartControl). What do I miss?

posted Feb 28, 2015 by Vijay Shukla

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ls -l /dev/sdc*

Depending on how the application is opening it having a partition on it seems to block certain apps from opening the underlying device. It likely depends on how the application is opening it. dd always works in my experience, but other tools appear to be unhappy when they detect another user of the device.

answer Feb 28, 2015 by Arjuna
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