From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031027 Description of problem: There is no-longer any option to check for bad blocks when partitioning/formatting the disk's at install time. This is an item of functionality that really should be re-instated. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install fedora core 2. Select auto partition 3. Attempt to edit the partitions, there is no option to check the partitions for bad blocks. Actual Results: erm... well it just creates the partitions and does a quick format Expected Results: I wanted the option to scan the partitions I created for bad blocks Additional info: There is a significant chance of data loss if users install to partitions that they have no easy way of checking at install time.
This was removed because it's destructive and by the time you've checked you're in a situation of where you can do nothing to help the user. Also, badblocks was popping up some false positives in various cases as well.