How to find corrupted files?

Posted by rafalcieslak on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by rafalcieslak
Published on 2011-03-02T18:22:20Z Indexed on 2011/03/02 23:33 UTC
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Some files on my hard drive are corrupted (no worries, nothing system-related, just a junk of data files, mp3 etc.). I found that out when I tried to burn them all to a DVD, the burning application show a message that it cannot read the files as they are corrupted. [This is probably a drive issue, it had happened me once or twice already].

I don't care about recovering them, but I have to determine which ones are corrupted. I cannot check by manually opening them all, as there are thousands of them. Is there any tricky way to check all the files and list the ones that may cause problems when tried to open?

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