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3 Useful GUI and Terminal Based Linux Disk Scanning Tools

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Dec 4, 2019

There mainly two reasons for scanning a computer hard disk: one is to examine it for filesystem inconsistencies or errors that can result from persistent system crashes, improper closure of critical system software and more significantly by destructive programs (such as malware, viruses etc).
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