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Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/badsect')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/badsect/badsect.8 | 22 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 b/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 index e5d4e9e..89abe88 100644 --- a/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 +++ b/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 @@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ .Nm .Ar bbdir sector ... .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Badsect -makes a file to contain a bad sector. Normally, bad sectors +The +.Nm +utility 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. If a driver supports the bad blocking standard it is much preferable to @@ -67,8 +68,9 @@ do not support the bad-blocking standard .Nm may be used to good effect. .Pp -.Nm Badsect -is used on a quiet filesystem in the following way: +The +.Nm +utility is used on a quiet filesystem in the following way: First mount the filesystem, and change to its root directory. Make a directory .Li BAD @@ -97,8 +99,9 @@ This will leave the bad sectors in only the .Li BAD files. .Pp -.Nm Badsect -works by giving the specified sector numbers in a +The +.Nm +utility 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 @@ -113,8 +116,9 @@ to convert the inode to a regular file containing the bad block. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr fsck 8 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS -.Nm Badsect -refuses to attach a block that +The +.Nm +utility refuses to attach a block that resides in a critical area or is out of range of the filesystem. A warning is issued if the block is already in use. .Sh BUGS @@ -126,5 +130,5 @@ filesystem fragment. .Sh HISTORY The .Nm -command appeared in +utility appeared in .Bx 4.1 . |
