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Date:      Fri, 21 Apr 2000 12:12:29 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@mail.hiwaay.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, grg@philol.msu.ru
Subject:   Re:  bad144 missing?
Message-ID:  <200004211712.e3LHCTb26100@mail.hiwaay.net>

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> Accidentally, I've found out that /usr/sbin/bad144 in my fbsd 4.0
> is dated by December, and there is no bad144 in /usr/src. 
> So, has it disappeared?
> 
> I have a HDD with bad blocks, how do I find all of them and mark them?
> I've done newfs, then fsck, fsck reports 
>   CANNOT READ: BLK 1114288 CONTINUE? [yn]
> several times. Apparently, fsck won't mark the blocks it can't read as bad,
> and therefore some data will be written there and then lost.
> Am I missing something? How could I achieve functionality
> that earlier was provided by bad144?

Use badsect(8) to create files(s) containing the bad blocks.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm)
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