From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@www.transmeta.com>
Subject: mkfs -cc and fsck -c
-a) An option to mkfs to run badblocks in read/write mode. The
-filesystem is blank, so this is the perfect time to run the read/write
-test.
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b) An option to mkfs to zero the partition. Yes, it can be done with
dd, but it would be a nicer way of doing it.
Somewhat unrelated, I just noticed the
http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2.html could be updated:
-- mentions 1.17 as new :)
- could mention SGI xfs (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ - they just
release 0.03 snapshot)
- Ted
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-check_if_mounted() should check to see if the file is in /proc/swaps,
-to avoid mkfs's or checking a active swap partition.
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Debugfs's link command should set the file type information