I believe there is an option to tell the redhat installer to do a full check while it's formatting, which should do what you want. It has been a while since I used the redhat installer though.
-joel On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 11:16 -0800, Aaron Lopez wrote: > Hi all, > Does anyone know when you format a disk on a Linux install > (specifically, RedHat based distros) if the bad blocks are marked? or > you have to do that from the OS? i.e. mkfs.ext3 -jccv /dev/hdx > > > Aaron Lopez > _______________________________________________ > 909linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux -- Joel Brauer Manager IS Communications and Web Technologies [email protected] pager: [email protected] office: 909-558-7713 cell: 909-534-1934 Only you can decide to be happy! The rest of life is working out the details...
