Is there a command to analyze hard drives?

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Greetings, I need to know if my hard drives have any errors. And I don’t know if there is a command to scan the disks
thank you

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You can trigger filesystem checks with dietpi-drive_manager.

https://dietpi.com/docs/dietpi_tools/system_configuration/#dietpi-drive-manager

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Thanks, I thought there was a command for this. I’m going to try what you tell me.

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The command is fsck. For an ext4 file system on /dev/sda2`you would do

fsck.ext4 /dev/sda2

For vfat it is fsck.vfat and so on…

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thank you very much I’ll try it

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