Bug#339957: badblocks not available to installer

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

Package: debian-installer 
Version: testing

badblocks is not available to the parition manager. I would like two options

1. that badblocks be added to the netinst image. While manually partitioning from the command line on the virtual console I found that  I could not execute

mkfs.ext3 -c -c -j /dev/hda1

2. that the user has the option of editing the command line options to mkfs before it is run

Since Ubuntu consumes the debian installer. It would be nice for this feature/bug be addressed here.  My laptop has recently developed some bad blocks and a new debian installed failed with an error. When I attempted to create a filesystem manually via the virtual console I could not scan for badblocks.

Regards, Sean