How to check bad sectors at Fedora at new installation
Dennis Calhoun
dcalhoun at blomand.net
Tue Nov 9 07:17:35 UTC 2004
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:07:02 +0800, you wrote:
>> It seems that the option of check bad sector is removed from
>Fedora.
Yes, because it was causing far more problems than it was helping.
>> What should i do if i need one?
Prior to installation, boot from CD and enter rescue, where it can be
ran from the shell prompt as "badblocks". It has been months since I
did that, so please reference the manual for more info, unless someone
else is willing to contribute here.
Dennis C.
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