ocr: Online Help Choose partitions to Format /dev/hdas / Choose Tidev/hdal /boot Partitions to /dev/hda7 /home Format /dev/hda8 /usr Choose the partitions that you would like to format for Red Hat Check for bad blocks while formatting Linux. Doyou want to check for bad blocks? Checking for bad blocks can. help prevent data loss by finding the bad blocks on a drive and making a. list of them to prevent data from being written to them in the future. Hide Help Back Next