Bug#339957: badblocks not available to installer
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:17:17AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> The best thing to do would of course adding something to the
> partman-ext3 and partman-basicfilesystems packages to offer a "check
> for bad blocks" option....but this requires someone to do it..:-)
libparted has a ped_geometry_check() function that does this. partman
doesn't call it at present, but it would probably be fairly simple to
make it do so.
We already do automatic file system checks (but not block-level checks)
at the end of partman.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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