Linux installs on CF Flash chips.

[Jim Cornette <fc-cornette insight rr com>]

Having an installation of Linux on a CF Flash, I am wondering if it is 
needed to check for bad blocks during file formatting. I am also 
wondering if using tune2fs -c 0 and tune2fs -i 0 is needed or is a bad idea.
I did not set up this CF installation, but am curious as to CF Flashes 
and their reliability.
The options they used were for tune2fs and formatting the filesystem with
 mkfs.ext2 -j /dev/hda
Would passing the -c flag to mkfs.ext2 along with the -j option for 
journalling be needed for flashes? Will it mark the blocks as bad before 
the filesystem is used for anything?

Jim


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