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+.\" $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 $
+.\"
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+.\"
+.\" @(#)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.