Re: How to clone debian system to another hard drive

[Tom Pfeifer <mailmisc@snet.net>]

Eugene Sevinian wrote:
> 
> Hi Tom,
> I have read from this mini-howto (point 4.) the following:
> "...(Note: Contrary to what the man page states,
> the command "mkfs -t ext2 -c /dev/hdb1" doesn't check for bad blocks 
> under any of Red Hat, Debian or Slackware.)..."
> 
> Is it true for Debian?
> 

Yes, it does check for bad blocks on my machine (hamm) with either
syntax

mkfs.ext2 -c /dev/hdxx    OR  mkfs -t ext2 -c /dev/hdxx

of the command, as long as the -c is used.  Not sure I understand what
the author is talking about there.

Tom


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