Bug#339957: badblocks not available to installer

[Sean Jensen-Grey <seanj@xyke.com>]

Hello Colin,

If you point me in the right direction, I'll make a patch to do this.


On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 07:57:44PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]