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Date:      Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:10:28 +0100 (CET)
From:      ue@nathan.ruhr.de
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   docs/17060: orphaned references to bad144(8) [PATCH]
Message-ID:  <200002282310.AAA75117@nathan.ruhr.de>

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>Number:         17060
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       orphaned references to bad144(8) [PATCH]
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 28 15:10:02 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Udo Erdelhoff
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	4.0-CURRENT as of 27-FEB-2000

>Description:

The program bad144 and it's manpage won't be a part of 4.0-RELEASE. The
manapges for badsect(8) and diskpart(8) contain forgotten references to
bad144(8). The patch removes them (Orwell, anyone?).

>How-To-Repeat:

	N/A

>Fix:

--- /usr/src/sbin/badsect/badsect.8.orig	Mon Feb 28 18:29:31 2000
+++ /usr/src/sbin/badsect/badsect.8	Mon Feb 28 18:31:45 2000
@@ -45,9 +45,7 @@
 .Nm Badsect
 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; see
-.Xr bad144 8
-for details.
+a forwarding table for bad sectors to the driver.
 If a driver supports the bad blocking standard it is much 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
@@ -112,7 +110,6 @@
 .Xr fsck 8
 to convert the inode to a regular file containing the bad block.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr bad144 8 ,
 .Xr fsck 8
 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 .Nm Badsect


--- /usr/src/usr.sbin/diskpart/diskpart.8.orig	Mon Feb 28 18:33:27 2000
+++ /usr/src/usr.sbin/diskpart/diskpart.8	Mon Feb 28 18:34:35 2000
@@ -68,17 +68,13 @@
 option.
 .El
 .Pp
-On disks that use
-.Xr bad144 8
-type of
-bad-sector forwarding,
+On disks that use bad-sector forwarding,
 space is normally left in the last partition on the disk
 for a bad sector forwarding table, although this space
 is not reflected in the tables produced.  The space reserved
 is one track for the replicated copies of the table and
 sufficient tracks to hold a pool of 126 sectors to which bad sectors
-are mapped.  For more information, see 
-.Xr bad144 8 .
+are mapped.
 The
 .Fl s
 option is intended for other controllers which reserve some space at the end
@@ -128,7 +124,6 @@
 will prompt for the required disk geometry information.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr disktab 5 ,
-.Xr bad144 8
 .Sh BUGS
 Most default partition sizes are based on historical artifacts
 (like the RP06), and may result in unsatisfactory layouts.

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