check for bad blocks during the installation ?

meherenow at darkglobe.org meherenow at darkglobe.org
Wed Nov 19 10:38:31 UTC 2003


Quoting Sébastien Blomme <s.blomme at sesea.fr>:

> Can you tell me where I can indicate that I want to format the disk whit a
> test of the bad blocks.
> 
> Or if it is the case, why this option has been totally removed.

Bugzilla is your friend...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110176
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109442

The second one was raised by me... personaly I think this is a really bad
decision that will cause far larger support issues in the long term (as people
install on drives the "assume" are good and encounter a flaky system).

-- 

Dave





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