I ran the command **sudo badblocks -wsv /dev/sdb1** on my laptop and then I fell asleep. When I woke up, my laptop had restarted, and I'm unsure if the badblocks process finished. The last thing I remember was it being at 0xff. I'm using Fedora 43 with a Seagate expansion hard drive. How can I check if the process completed? Also, I didn't see any errors, but is it safe to use the drive now? I also have a separate issue where I can't get S.M.A.R.T to work because of problems with my USB port.
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You can look for a log file named `log.txt` that should have been generated during the process. Check your root directory for it.
Where exactly should I search for that log file? My search isn't turning up anything useful.