how to adjust mkfs parameters?

[Arian Sanusi <arian@sanusi.de>]

Hi,

installing squeeze from network.iso on a hp tc4400 laptop on a 16GB 
SD-card. Setup is two logical volumes on LUKS

I need to do a mkfs.ext3 -c to do a bad block check before formatting. 
how can this be done?

Reason (skip this if in hurry):
I'm a bit in Trouble installing to a 16 GB SD-Card (for power saving). 
The Card behaves somewhat strange: after copying some bigger amount of 
Data to it when _not_ having vfat on it, it resets. When Formatting with 
a badblock scan, some blocks get disabled and resets disappear. I 
presume wear leveling somehow gets disabled when not using fatfs -.-


thanks in advance, arian