On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 06:27:09PM -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > > At one time, there was an option to run badblocks when formatting a > partition during installation. Is there a reason that it was > dropped? Is there some way it can be added back in? Mostly because modern hard drives have internal management of bad blocks. Space is reserved a mapping is used to avoid bad blocks. The bad blocks check was really slow and rarely gave useful output to the user. > It just occurred to me that this may be available under "expert" > mode. If it is, good; otherwise, could it be added to expert mode? No, the code is commented out in iw/partition_dialog_gui.py. Look at the bottom of the file. Also see textw/partition_text.py and look for "showbad = 0". The backend stuff is still intact in fsset.py, so putting the code back and building an updates disk would re-enable the code -- no idea if it still works. Cheers, Matt -- Matt Wilson Specifix, Inc.
