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how to Corrup ext3 paration
hi guys,

I am testing some embedded device.. In which there were a bug due to the corruption of the ext3 partition. ( if the partition was currapated all system was crashing )

Now developers are mounting that particular partition to check whether it is corrupted or not and taking other actions according to that...

Now I need to reproduce the bug to confirm that it has been solved....

My problem is. is there any way we can corrupt the ext3 partition ??
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I recommend you use ext2 and not ext3. ext3 causes more problems than any benefits.
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I recommend you use ext2 and not ext3. ext3 causes more problems than any benefits.
Yup. u are right.. but it's not in my hand to change it.. I am working as a QA member and now I need to check that even thought the ext3 partition is corrupted the system should take care of it.

And I don't know how to corrupt the ext3 partition.. any idea ??
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Now I need to reproduce the bug to confirm that it has been solved....
It might be easier to just run fsck and see if it finds problems or not.
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Yup. u are right.. but it's not in my hand to change it.. I am working as a QA member and now I need to check that even thought the ext3 partition is corrupted the system should take care of it.

And I don't know how to corrupt the ext3 partition.. any idea ??
dd some data on the disk.
First, skip some blocks of the disk and write some random data.
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=1 of=/dev/disk seek=10353
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