Look for f3 in the System menu or in a submenu.
F3 can also be used as a non-destructive "bleaching" tool for flash drives because it writes random data over all the empty space on the drive.
1. Mount the flash drive.
2. Run f3 and select the flash drive partition.
3. Click the "Write to" button. When done, close the terminal window.
4. Repeat with "Read back".
5. Click "Quit". The temporary files are deleted.
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Update: Version 5.0 of f3 also contains the experimental tools like f3probe as described here. It can test whether your flash device is genuine and is faster than the full write/read procedure. There are several caveats.
1. To run the experimental tools, you need a Puppy with libudev.so.1, like Tahrpup 604. Symlinking an older version of libudev won't work.
2. The tools are located in /usr/local/f3, so you must run them from the command line.
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./f3probe /dev/sdb
4. You need a lot of RAM (2-3 GB) to run f3probe in non-destructive mode. Otherwise, run
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./f3probe --destructive /dev/sdb
5. Be patient - f3probe may take several minutes.
[Edit] Version 5.0 deleted due to lack of testing.
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