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        !             7: .TH BADSECT 8 "April 27, 1985"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: badsect \- create files to contain bad sectors
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B /etc/badsect
        !            13: bbdir sector ...
        !            14: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            15: .I Badsect
        !            16: makes a file to contain a bad sector.  Normally, bad sectors
        !            17: are made inaccessible by the standard formatter, which provides
        !            18: a forwarding table for bad sectors to the driver; see
        !            19: .IR bad144 (8)
        !            20: for details.
        !            21: If a driver supports the bad blocking standard it is much preferable to
        !            22: use that method to isolate bad blocks, since the bad block forwarding
        !            23: makes the pack appear perfect, and such packs can then be copied with
        !            24: .IR dd (1).
        !            25: The technique used by this program is also less general than
        !            26: bad block forwarding, as
        !            27: .I badsect
        !            28: can't make amends for
        !            29: bad blocks in the i-list of file systems or in swap areas.
        !            30: .PP
        !            31: On some disks,
        !            32: adding a sector which is suddenly bad to the bad sector table
        !            33: currently requires the running of the standard DEC formatter.
        !            34: Thus to deal with a newly bad block
        !            35: or on disks where the drivers
        !            36: do not support the bad-blocking standard 
        !            37: .I badsect
        !            38: may be used to good effect.
        !            39: .PP
        !            40: .I Badsect
        !            41: is used on a quiet file system in the following way:
        !            42: First mount the file system, and change to its root directory.
        !            43: Make a directory BAD there.  Run
        !            44: .I badsect
        !            45: giving as argument the BAD directory followed by
        !            46: all the bad sectors you wish to add.
        !            47: (The sector numbers must be relative to the beginning of
        !            48: the file system, but this is not hard as the system reports
        !            49: relative sector numbers in its console error messages.)
        !            50: Then change back to the root directory, unmount the file system
        !            51: and run
        !            52: .IR fsck (8)
        !            53: on the file system.  The bad sectors should show up in two files
        !            54: or in the bad sector files and the free list.  Have
        !            55: .I fsck
        !            56: remove files containing the offending bad sectors, but 
        !            57: .B "do not"
        !            58: have it remove the BAD/\fInnnnn\fR files.
        !            59: This will leave the bad sectors in only the BAD files.
        !            60: .PP
        !            61: .I Badsect
        !            62: works by giving the specified sector numbers in a
        !            63: .IR mknod (2)
        !            64: system call,
        !            65: creating an illegal file whose first block address is the block containing
        !            66: bad sector and whose name is the bad sector number.
        !            67: When it is discovered by 
        !            68: .I fsck
        !            69: it will ask ``HOLD BAD BLOCK''?
        !            70: A positive response will cause 
        !            71: .I fsck
        !            72: to convert the inode to a regular file containing the bad block.
        !            73: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            74: bad144(8),
        !            75: fsck(8),
        !            76: format(8V)
        !            77: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !            78: .I Badsect
        !            79: refuses to attach a block that
        !            80: resides in a critical area or is out of range of the file system.
        !            81: A warning is issued if the block is already in use.
        !            82: .SH BUGS
        !            83: If more than one sector which comprise a file system fragment are bad,
        !            84: you should specify only one of them to
        !            85: .I badsect,
        !            86: as the blocks in the bad sector files actually cover all the sectors in a
        !            87: file system fragment.

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