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Hello,

I'm using the tool to basically wipe a disk.

I made a stub batch file

:loop1
disk-filltest.exe -u
goto loop1

On this case, i don't care that each loop will check (read_randfiles();) randomness of datas.

I suggest to add one or two switch to :

• Allow no randomness verification
• Allow a loop usage of the software

Bests regards,
Anael

This is a suggested improvement. After about 48 hours of disk scan an error was reported about a third of the way through the read verification and further reads stopped. I wanted to interrogate this further by confirming the error on the identified file and block as well as continue scanning the remaining files for read errors. As far as I know, I had no way to find or know the seed used to finish the read verification. My only option is to restart the scan and wait another 32-48 hours...

I suggest that upon failure and exit print out the seed used or include it in the name of the files created as in random-[seed]-00000000.

This is obviously not a mistake I will may twice (hopefully), but since the scans take so long for the large disks in use now, I think this would help new users.

Thanks for updating the URIs to https (8f50d7d) 👍
There is one left in the repository description :)

I noticed this while reviewing a PR which packages disk-filltest for NixOS.