Nunca

Me había preguntado entre la diferencia de hacer formato rápido o normal en NTFS… del man de mkntfs

-f, –fast, -Q, –quick
Perform quick (fast) format. This will skip both zeroing of the volume and bad sector checking.

DE hecho según el KB de MS

When you choose to run a regular format on a volume, files are removed from the volume that you are formatting and the hard disk is scanned for bad sectors. The scan for bad sectors is responsible for the majority of the time that it takes to format a volume.

If you choose the Quick format option, format removes files from the partition, but does not scan the disk for bad sectors. Only use this option if your hard disk has been previously formatted and you are sure that your hard disk is not damaged.

Justo hoy que ando dandole mantenimiento a un disco de un case me vino a la mente la pregunta…

smartctl -i /dev/sdb1
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and 7200.7 Plus family
Device Model: ST380011A
Serial Number: 3JVCQ9HJ
Firmware Version: 8.01
User Capacity: 80,026,361,856 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 6
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2
Local Time is: Sat May 8 03:09:22 2010 UTC
SMART support is: Available – device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1

Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 1050 54327364
# 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 70% 1003 54327364
# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1003 –

Error 36 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1005 hours (41 days + 21 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
— — — — — — —
40 51 00 44 f8 3c f3 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x033cf844 = 54327364

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
— — — — — — — — —————- ——————–
c8 00 08 3f f8 3c f3 00 01:13:59.242 READ DMA
27 00 00 00 00 00 f0 00 01:13:59.234 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
ec 00 00 00 00 00 b0 02 01:13:59.226 IDENTIFY DEVICE
ef 03 45 00 00 00 b0 02 01:13:59.226 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
27 00 00 00 00 00 f0 00 01:13:59.220 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT

mkntfs /dev/sdb1 -L MAP -I
Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.
Initializing device with zeroes: 100% – Done.
Creating NTFS volume structures.
mkntfs completed successfully. Have a nice day.