Bug#339957: badblocks not available to installer
If someone sorta "hold my hand" and tells me where the code I should change is, I'll make a patch.
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:17:17AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Sean Jensen-Grey (seanj@xyke.com):
> > Package: debian-installer
> > Version: testing
> >
> > badblocks is not available to the parition manager. I would like two options
>
>
> To the D-I team people: do you think we can request for badblocks to
> be added to the e2fsprogs-udeb package?
>
> Even if nothing in partman currently makes use of it, it could still
> be available for manual checks done in the virtual consoles just like
> Sean described.
>
> 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..:-)
>
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