Leo J Mauler wrote: > What would be the command for creating a new ext3 filesystem (lets say on > /dev/hdc7) and checking for bad blocks at the same time? mke2fs -jc /dev/hdc7 or mke2fs -jcc /dev/hdc7 The later is a read/write test and will wipe the drive as it does it. I got those from 'man mke2fs'.