On 10 Jun, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday 10 June 2010 11:15:17 Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when creating a file system on a partition on a brand new hard disk, >> I have always used the '-c' twice to check for bad blocks. >> This works for ext3 and ext4. >> Now, I'd like to use a btrfs file system on some partitions but the >> '-c' option (to mkfs.btrfs or mkbtrfs) seems to have gone. >> What can I do about this? >> >> Many thanks for a hint, >> Helmut. >> > > Hi Helmut, > > You could either first use mkfs for ext3 or 4 to check, or you could run > "badblock" manually over the partition first to check. > Thanks, Joost,
but I don't know how to feed the output of badblocks to mkbtrfs. It looks as if btrfs cannot use a bad block list. Is that true? Helmut.
