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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man8/badsect.8 b/static/openbsd/man8/badsect.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d383dae2 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man8/badsect.8 @@ -0,0 +1,131 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: badsect.8,v 1.18 2022/03/31 17:27:19 naddy Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: badsect.8,v 1.8 1995/03/18 14:54:27 cgd Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)badsect.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 31 2022 $ +.Dt BADSECT 8 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm badsect +.Nd create files to contain bad sectors +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm badsect +.Ar bbdir sector ... +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +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 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 +bad block forwarding, as +.Nm +can't make amends for +bad blocks in the i-list of file systems or in swap areas. +.Pp +On some disks, +adding a sector which is suddenly bad to the bad sector table +currently requires the running of the standard +.Tn DEC +formatter. +Thus to deal with a newly bad block +or on disks where the drivers +do not support the bad-blocking standard +.Nm +may be used to good effect. +.Pp +.Nm +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 +.Nm badsect , +giving as argument the +.Ar BAD +directory followed by +all the bad sectors you wish to add. +(The sector numbers must be relative to the beginning of +the file system, but this is not hard as the system reports +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 +.Em fsck +remove files containing the offending bad sectors, but +.Em do not +have it remove the +.Pa BAD/ Ns Em nnnnn +files. +This will leave the bad sectors in only the +.Li BAD +files. +.Pp +.Nm +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 +the bad sector, and whose name is the bad sector number. +When it is discovered by +.Em fsck , +it will ask +.Dq Li "HOLD BAD BLOCK?" +A positive response will cause +.Em fsck +to convert the inode to a regular file containing the bad block. +.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 fsck 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +command appeared in +.Bx 4.1 . +.Sh BUGS +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 +file system fragment. |
