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 or ext3 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.