On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, at 6:24pm, Hans Reiser wrote:
> A colleague of mine back when I was part of a sysadmin department used to
> write to every block on the drive before installing the OS on it.  I think
> he was right to do so.  I have considered having mkreiserfs ask the user
> if he wants to do that.

  I usually do a "badblocks -w" on any new disk before putting it into
production for that reason.

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