Is there a utility that can check flash drives for
the number of remaining spare blocks, or perhaps
the number of blocks not yet written to?

AFAIK, SMART doesn't deal with flash devices other
than SSDs equipped for the service. I'm interested
in SD cards and thumb drives.

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska

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