From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2012-11-22, Daniel47@teranews.com  wrote:   
   > Aragorn wrote:   
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   >> 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.   
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   > 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.   
      
   Modern drives do automatic bad block checking in firmware/hardware. It   
   does not care what is on the drive, or what operating system is running.   
      
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   > Daniel   
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