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Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/badsect/badsect.8')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 b/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 index 099c3e32655..deb994d4346 100644 --- a/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 +++ b/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: badsect.8,v 1.11 2001/12/13 20:16:48 mpech Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: badsect.8,v 1.12 2003/01/29 16:53:37 jmc Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: badsect.8,v 1.8 1995/03/18 14:54:27 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993 @@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ are made inaccessible by the standard formatter, which provides a forwarding table for bad sectors to the driver; see .Xr bad144 8 for details. -If a driver supports the bad blocking standard it is much preferable to -use that method to isolate bad blocks, since the bad block forwarding +If a driver supports the bad blocking standard, it is much more preferable +to use that method to isolate bad blocks, since the bad block forwarding 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 @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Make a directory .Li BAD there. Run -.Nm +.Nm badsect , giving as argument the .Ar BAD directory followed by @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ works by giving the specified sector numbers in a .Xr mknod 2 system call, creating an illegal file whose first block address is the block containing -bad sector and whose name is the bad sector number. +the bad sector, and whose name is the bad sector number. When it is discovered by .Em fsck it will ask @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ The command appeared in .Bx 4.1 . .Sh BUGS -If more than one sector which comprise a file system fragment are bad, +If more than one sector which comprises a file system fragment is bad, you should specify only one of them to .Nm badsect , as the blocks in the bad sector files actually cover all the sectors in a |