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Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/badsect/badsect.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/badsect/badsect.8 | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 b/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 index 3e387d3b23aa..be24febcd039 100644 --- a/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 +++ b/sbin/badsect/badsect.8 @@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm -utility makes a file to contain a bad sector. Normally, bad sectors +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 @@ -83,8 +84,10 @@ 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 8 remove files containing the offending bad sectors, but .Em do not |