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diff --git a/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 b/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 index 57560b0e526..0c1cfea582b 100644 --- a/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 +++ b/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: badsect.8,v 1.9 1999/06/29 12:20:43 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: badsect.8,v 1.10 2000/03/18 22:55:54 aaron Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: badsect.8,v 1.8 1995/03/18 14:54:27 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993 @@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ .Ar bbdir sector Op Ar ... .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm -makes a file to contain a bad sector. Normally, bad sectors +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 .Xr bad144 8 @@ -76,7 +77,8 @@ 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 +there. +Run .Nm giving as argument the .Ar BAD @@ -88,8 +90,10 @@ relative sector numbers in its console error messages.) Then change back to the root directory, unmount the file system and run .Xr fsck 8 -on the file system. The bad sectors should show up in two files -or in the bad sector files and the free list. Have +on the file system. +The bad sectors should show up in two files +or in the bad sector files and the free list. +Have .Xr fsck remove files containing the offending bad sectors, but .Em do not @@ -113,22 +117,22 @@ it will ask A positive response will cause .Xr fsck to convert the inode to a regular file containing the bad block. -.Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr bad144 8 , -.Xr fsck 8 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS .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. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr bad144 8 , +.Xr fsck 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +command appeared in +.Bx 4.1 . .Sh BUGS If more than one sector which comprise a file system fragment are 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 file system fragment. -.Sh HISTORY -The -.Nm -command appeared in -.Bx 4.1 . |