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authoraaron <aaron@openbsd.org>1998-11-26 21:32:50 +0000
committeraaron <aaron@openbsd.org>1998-11-26 21:32:50 +0000
commit3fae174e8281261fb275c7ff74d76479cbdb07a2 (patch)
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parentsync (diff)
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remove redundancy
-rw-r--r--sbin/badsect/badsect.818
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 b/sbin/badsect/badsect.8
index d60af3d84c2..75154952a6e 100644
--- a/sbin/badsect/badsect.8
+++ b/sbin/badsect/badsect.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: badsect.8,v 1.4 1998/09/23 01:20:22 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: badsect.8,v 1.5 1998/11/26 21:32:50 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: badsect.8,v 1.8 1995/03/18 14:54:27 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993
@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@
.Nm badsect
.Nd create files to contain bad sectors
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm /sbin/badsect
+.Nm
.Ar bbdir sector Op Ar ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm badsect
+.Nm
makes a file to contain a bad sector. Normally, bad sectors
are made inaccessible by the standard formatter, which provides
a forwarding table for bad sectors to the driver; see
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ makes the pack appear perfect, and such packs can then be copied with
.Xr dd 1 .
The technique used by this program is also less general than
bad block forwarding, as
-.Nm badsect
+.Nm
can't make amends for
bad blocks in the i-list of file systems or in swap areas.
.Pp
@@ -68,16 +68,16 @@ formatter.
Thus to deal with a newly bad block
or on disks where the drivers
do not support the bad-blocking standard
-.Nm badsect
+.Nm
may be used to good effect.
.Pp
-.Nm badsect
+.Nm
is used on a quiet file system in the following way:
First mount the file system, and change to its root directory.
Make a directory
.Li BAD
there. Run
-.Nm badsect
+.Nm
giving as argument the
.Ar BAD
directory followed by
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ This will leave the bad sectors in only the
.Li BAD
files.
.Pp
-.Nm badsect
+.Nm
works by giving the specified sector numbers in a
.Xr mknod 2
system call,
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ to convert the inode to a regular file containing the bad block.
.Xr format 8 ,
.Xr fsck 8
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
-.Nm badsect
+.Nm
refuses to attach a block that
resides in a critical area or is out of range of the file system.
A warning is issued if the block is already in use.