Translations:Gentoo installation tips and tricks/64/en

If you think your disk needs to be thoroughly checked for consistency (bad sectors and such), you can use the  (that's lowercase c) option while placing the ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem on it (using  ). This will format, perform a read-test and mark all bad blocks as such. If you are really paranoid, use  to format your disk and perform an extensive read/write test.