Re: RH9 bad block problems - bug ?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam Trinity Edu>]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 10:23:11PM -0700, Jerry Williams wrote:
> I have tried to install RH9 several times.  This machine has been running
> RH8.0 just fine.  I tried to install RH9 as a fresh install and have it
> check for bad blocks on each file system.  It is a Dell Computer with a
> Maxtor 30Gig IDE disk.  When it failed I did the crtl+alt+d to test the disk
> and it passed.  So then I loaded their diagnostics and ran it and it passed.
> So then I did an install and just selected MIN install and had it check for
> bad blocks and it worked.  So then I tried again and selected what I really
> wanted and it failed.  So then I got a copy of a crash recovery cd RH8.0 and
> ran badblock -svw /dev/hda and it passed.  The question I have is what
> command is run when you select ext3 and check for bad blocks?  I was looking
> at the man page for mke2fs and it says:
>        -c     Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file
> system.
>               If this option is specified twice, then a  slower,
> destructive,
>               read-write test is used instead of a fast read-only test.
> 
> So is RH9 doing -c or -c -c?  Or is it using some other command?
> Thanks!
Why don't you install without checking for bad blocks and see what
happens. Sounds like a bug in the bad block checker of the installer.
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