From: Daniel47@teranews.com   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
      
      
   > So far, I have found that with Mandrake (prior to the namechange),   
   > PCLinuxOS and Mageia, the installer allows you to check for bad blocks   
   > but only does this - or so it is my understanding - for the partition   
   > designated as swap.  This is not to say that it cannot be done - or   
   > perhaps better worded "that one cannot ordain a bad blocks check" - on   
   > any partition, but the fact that the installer only offers the option of   
   > checking for bad blocks on swap partitions - again, if my understanding   
   > is correct - suggests that it's a pretty futile time waster.   
      
      
      
   Aragorn, I've got no idea really, but could it be that whilst installing   
   a system to a particular partition, that partition is subjected to a   
   "bad blocks check" automatically, but, as nothing is normally installed   
   to the swap partition, it would not, otherwise, have a "bad blocks   
   check" done on it, except at this system installation time??   
      
   So, if the "bad blocks check" of the swap partition was not done, the   
   bad blocks may never by located/marked, and data might be lost??   
      
   Just asking/suggesting.   
      
   Daniel   
      
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