BurninTest for Linux fails to test Startup Disk

[Steve Elliott]

BurnInTest for Linux fails to test the Startup Disk.

My installation has separate / & /home logical volumes.

I have my installation at ~/burnintest.

The test files (~bittest*.txt) for the Startup disk should be generated in / but appear in ~/burnintest which is of course on the /home volume.

Effectively /home is tested twice & / is not tested.

Here is my test log:

PassMark BurnInTest Log file - http://www.passmark.com
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BurnInTest v3.0 (1000) Linux
Logging detail level: Normal
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SYSTEMN SUMMARY
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Linux 2.6.35.12-90.fc14.x86_64
1 x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz
0 MB RAM

GENERAL
System Name: arcaa
Motherboard Manufacturer: Kontron
Motherboard Model: cPCI-CP6016
Motherboard Version: 1
Bios Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
Bios Version: 4.6.3
Bios Release Date: 02/02/2010

CPU
CPU Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz
Speed: 2527.0 MHz
CPUID: Family 6, Model 23, Stepping 6
Socket: CPU 1
Physical CPU's: 1
Cores per CPU: 2
Hyperthreading: No
CPU Features: MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSE4.1 PAE VMX SMX
Cache per CPU package:
L1 Cache: 0 kB
L2 Cache: 0 kB

MEMORY
Total Memory: 3957 MB
Available Memory: 3448 MB
Memory Devices:
A1_DIMM0 : DDR2, No Module Installed, Unknown
A1_DIMM1 : DDR2, No Module Installed, Unknown
A1_DIMM2 : DDR2, No Module Installed, Unknown
A1_DIMM3 : DDR2, No Module Installed, Unknown

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DETAILED EVENT LOG
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LOG NOTE: 2011-05-09 14:00:28, Status, BurnInTest v3.0 1000

LOG NOTE: 2011-05-09 14:08:24, Status, Starting test run

LOG NOTE: 2011-05-09 14:08:24, Status, Completed started test run

LOG NOTE: 2011-05-09 14:13:30, Status, Test run stopped


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RESULT SUMMARY
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Test Start time: Mon May 9 14:08:24 2011
Test Stop time: Mon May 9 14:13:29 2011
Test Duration: 000h 05m 05s

Test Name Cycles Operations Result Errors Last Error
Disk: Startup Disk [/dev/mapper/vg_arcaa-lv_root] 4 4.885 Billion PASS 0 No errors
Disk: Hard Disk (/home) [/dev/mapper/vg_arcaa-lv_home] 4 4.895 Billion PASS 0 No errors
TEST RUN PASSED

And here is my console output

[steve@arcaa burnintest]$ pwd
/home/steve/burnintest

[steve@arcaa burnintest]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_arcaa-lv_root
50G 2.7G 47G 6% /
tmpfs 2.0G 424K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 485M 49M 412M 11% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_arcaa-lv_home
50G 226M 47G 1% /home

[steve@arcaa burnintest]$ mount
/dev/mapper/vg_arcaa-lv_root on / type ext4 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,rootcontext="system_u: object_r:tmpfs_t:s0")
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw)
/dev/mapper/vg_arcaa-lv_home on /home type ext4 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/steve/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=steve)

.. ~/burnintest, / & /home - before test

[steve@arcaa burnintest]$ ll
total 104
drwxr-xr-x. 2 steve steve 4096 Aug 17 2010 32bit
drwxr-xr-x. 2 steve steve 4096 Aug 17 2010 64bit
-rw-r--r--. 1 steve steve 3900 Jun 17 2008 BITCertificateTemplate.html
-rw-r--r--. 1 steve steve 14390 Jul 7 2010 BITErrorClassification.txt
-rw-r--r--. 1 steve steve 8429 Aug 27 2007 BurnInTest_Linux_CLI_EULA.txt
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 steve steve 883 Aug 22 2008 burnintest.sh
drwxr-xr-x. 2 steve steve 4096 Aug 17 2010 help
-rw-r--r--. 1 steve steve 28221 Aug 17 2010 readme.txt
-rw-r--r--. 1 steve steve 28218 Aug 11 2010 readme.txt~
[steve@arcaa burnintest]$ ll /
total 102
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May 9 11:14 bin
8< snip 8<
drwxr-xr-x. 21 root root 4096 Oct 23 2010 var
[steve@arcaa burnintest]$ ll /home
total 20
drwx------. 2 root root 16384 May 8 21:45 lost+found
drwx------. 27 steve steve 4096 May 9 13:59 steve

.. ~/burnintest, / & /home - during test

[steve@arcaa burnintest]$ ll
total 74100
drwxr-xr-x. 2 steve steve 4096 Aug 17 2010 32bit
drwxr-xr-x. 2 steve steve 4096 Aug 17 2010 64bit
-rw-r--r--. 1 steve steve 3900 Jun 17 2008 BITCertificateTemplate.html
-rw-r--r--. 1 steve steve 14390 Jul 7 2010 BITErrorClassification.txt
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 75771904 May 9 14:08 ~bittest00001.txt
-rw-r--r--. 1 steve steve 8429 Aug 27 2007 BurnInTest_Linux_CLI_EULA.txt
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 steve steve 883 Aug 22 2008 burnintest.sh
drwxr-xr-x. 2 steve steve 4096 Aug 17 2010 help
-rw-r--r--. 1 steve steve 28221 Aug 17 2010 readme.txt
-rw-r--r--. 1 steve steve 28218 Aug 11 2010 readme.txt~
[steve@arcaa burnintest]$ ll/home
bash: ll/home: No such file or directory
[steve@arcaa burnintest]$ ll /home
total 236024
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 241668096 May 9 14:08 ~bittest00001.txt
drwx------. 2 root root 16384 May 8 21:45 lost+found
drwx------. 27 steve steve 4096 May 9 13:59 steve
[steve@arcaa burnintest]$ ll /
total 102
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May 9 11:14 bin
8< snip 8<
drwxr-xr-x. 21 root root 4096 Oct 23 2010 var

.. ~/burnintest, / & /home - after test

[steve@arcaa burnintest]$ ll
total 104
drwxr-xr-x. 2 steve steve 4096 Aug 17 2010 32bit
drwxr-xr-x. 2 steve steve 4096 Aug 17 2010 64bit
-rw-r--r--. 1 steve steve 3900 Jun 17 2008 BITCertificateTemplate.html
-rw-r--r--. 1 steve steve 14390 Jul 7 2010 BITErrorClassification.txt
-rw-r--r--. 1 steve steve 8429 Aug 27 2007 BurnInTest_Linux_CLI_EULA.txt
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 steve steve 883 Aug 22 2008 burnintest.sh
drwxr-xr-x. 2 steve steve 4096 Aug 17 2010 help
-rw-r--r--. 1 steve steve 28221 Aug 17 2010 readme.txt
-rw-r--r--. 1 steve steve 28218 Aug 11 2010 readme.txt~
[steve@arcaa burnintest]$ ll /home
total 20
drwx------. 2 root root 16384 May 8 21:45 lost+found
drwx------. 27 steve steve 4096 May 9 13:59 steve
[steve@arcaa burnintest]$ ll /
total 102
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May 9 11:14 bin
8< snip 8<
drwxr-xr-x. 21 root root 4096 Oct 23 2010 var
[steve@arcaa burnintest]$

The only way to test the root drive is to move ~/burnintest/ to a location which is definitly in that drive (I used /opt/burnintest/.

(This also has the consequence that .../burnintest/* cannot reside on a USB since for large a root drive the USB drive will quickly fill with large ~bittest*.txt files. )

Steve

[Tim (PassMark)]

There is a new build of BurnInTest available from http://www.passmark.com/ftp/bitlinux3.1001.tar.gz that changes the behaviour of the disk test so the files will be created at / when the startup disk is selected.

[Steve Elliott]

wget http://www.passmark.com/www.passmark...x3.1001.tar.gz
--2011-05-11 11:10:14-- http://www.passmark.com/www.passmark...x3.1001.tar.gz
Resolving www.passmark.com... 216.92.62.217
Connecting to www.passmark.com|216.92.62.217|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2011-05-11 11:10:15 ERROR 404: Not Found.

[Steve Elliott]

There is a new build of BurnInTest available from http:/www.passmark.com/ftp/bitlinux3.1001.tar.gz that changes the behaviour of the disk test so the files will be created at / when the startup disk is selected.

Your link is missing a second "/" after the "http:/"