From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Jim Beard wrote:   
   > On 05/26/2012 12:45 PM, Adam wrote:   
      
   >> Ah, good. That would save me about an hour of waiting during each   
   >> install... unless the installer insists on running mkfs anyway.   
   >   
   > An hour for mkfs does not seem right. Are you having it run badblocks on   
   > the partition?   
      
   Yes, I figured that it couldn't hurt to run badblocks's read/write test   
   on each partition once a year or so.  The new 20 GB partitions took   
   about an hour each.  I also ran the r/w test on my existing ext3/4   
   partitions.  (I used a live CD to check my root partition.)  I'm aware   
   that most of the time even the read-only test isn't necessary, but my   
   theory is "it couldn't hurt". :-)   
      
   Adam   
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