Bug#41298: acknowledged by developer (bootdisk: the rescue disk should include the sformat utility)
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 02:53:12AM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
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> I refuse. sformat is nothing to play with and it's not used normally. I
> even don't have it installed at all, neither on my nor on the most important
> Debian servers.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joey
And how do you propose to fix a bad scsi-disk on a system without a
controller bios to format the drive (eg. on non-x86 platforms like
the alpha: it happened to me on my multia and i had to cook up a second
rescue disk with sformat on it). There is no need to offer that option
in the installation menu, just put it on for the odd event when you
need it.
What is your position on the "badblocks -w" test during installation.
Lots of people, myself included, don't mind the extra time just to
be sure their harddisk has no badblocks. Call me paranoid if you like
but i have seen quite a few harddisk which checkout ok with a read-only
test only to produce errors later on as soon as data was written to
those blocks.
Yours,
Dominik Kubla
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