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mbadblocks(1)          DragonFly General Commands Manual         mbadblocks(1)

Name
       mbadblocks - tests a floppy disk, and marks the bad blocks in the FAT

Note of warning
       This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo
       documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete.  See the
       end of this man page for details.

Description
       The mbadblocks command is used to scan an MS-DOS floppy and mark its
       unused bad blocks as bad. It uses the following syntax:

       mbadblocks drive:

       Mbadblocks scans an MS-DOS floppy for bad blocks. All unused bad blocks
       are marked as such in the FAT. This is intended to be used right after
       mformat.  It is not intended to salvage bad disks.

Bugs
       Mbadblocks should (but doesn't yet :-( ) also try to salvage bad blocks
       which are in use by reading them repeatedly, and then mark them bad.

See Also
       Mtools' texinfo doc

Viewing the texi doc
       This manpage has been automatically generated from mtools's texinfo
       documentation. However, this process is only approximative, and some
       items, such as crossreferences, footnotes and indices are lost in this
       translation process.  Indeed, these items have no appropriate
       representation in the manpage format.  Moreover, not all information
       has been translated into the manpage version.  Thus I strongly advise
       you to use the original texinfo doc.  See the end of this manpage for
       instructions how to view the texinfo doc.

       *      To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the
              following commands:

                     ./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi

       *      To generate a html copy,  run:

                     ./configure; make html

              A premade html can be found at
              `http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/manual/mtools.html'

       *      To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode),
              run:

                     ./configure; make info

       The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html.  Indeed, in
       the info version certain examples are difficult to read due to the
       quoting conventions used in info.

mtools-4.0.10                       10Mar09                      mbadblocks(1)

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