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Flash drive spare block counter?

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From: bp@www.zefox.net (bob prohaska)
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Subject: Flash drive spare block counter?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:20:16 -0000 (UTC)
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Summary: Spare block counter for flash wanted
Keywords: flash, smartd, spare blocks
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by: bob prohaska - Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:20 UTC

Is there a utility that can check flash drives for
the number of remaining spare blocks, or perhaps
the number of blocks not yet written to?

AFAIK, SMART doesn't deal with flash devices other
than SSDs equipped for the service. I'm interested
in SD cards and thumb drives.

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska

I am the wandering glitch -- catch me if you can.

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