3 badblocks \- put a list of bad blocks in a file
5 \fBbadblocks \fIblock_special\fR [\fIblock\fR] ...\fR
18 .EX "badblocks /dev/hd1 " "Handle bad blocks on \fI/dev/hd1\fP"
19 .EX "badblocks /dev/hd3 310 570 1680 " "Three bad blocks on \fI/dev/hd3\fP"
22 If a device contains bad sectors, it is important to not have them
23 allocated to important files. This program makes it possible to collect
24 up to 7 bad blocks into a dummy file, so they will not be allocated for a
26 When the program starts up, it asks for a list of bad blocks, unless
27 they are provided as arguments.
28 Then it creates a file whose name is of the
29 form \fI.Bad_xxxxx\fR, where \fIxxxxx\fR is a pid.
34 .\" $PchId: badblocks.8,v 1.2 1998/07/27 19:47:04 philip Exp $