Description of problem: Had 5 bad blocks on my ide drive. [e2fsck -ck, badblocks -c ...] It would have been nice if the disk-install-menu had a "readonly scan for badblocks" checkbox or similar, causing it to auto-add them to the badblock file. I used mke2fs -c, e2fsck, and then told the installer to leave the partitions alone [no format]. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: On one install, prior it installed only to refuse to boot [errors] afterward. [I presume due to the badblocks being somewhere important]. Expected results: Further enhancement could be to read-check writes during install... [No idea how Unices do this, VMS uses a writecheck IO modifier]. Additional info:
In general, current drives actually do remapping underneath the level of the OS and so a badblocks check doesn't actually add anything useful.