On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 10:50 -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: > Anaconda grump... I have not seen a way to tell anaconda 'check ro or > rw for badblocks before/while creating my file systems and swap'. It used to be an option, many years ago. But because it went away, I dispensed with using Anaconda to prep the disc. I switch away to another terminal just before that point of the install process, and use fdisk, mkfs, and mkswap, to create my partitions, adding in the command options (see example below) to check the disc for bad blocks at the same time. Then go back to the install routine, and just use the manual partitioning options to CHOOSE which partitions to use, and don't reformat anything. e.g. mkfs.ext3 -c -L seagate200home -v /dev/sdb2 mkswap -c -L seagate200swap /dev/sdb5 I have several discs, so I write a disc identifier in the label (seagate200, or some other name) that helps *ME* tell apart the discs on a system. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.12-52.fc7 i686 i386 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. ________________________________________________________________ If I wanted a hard time I would have used Windows... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list