mbadblocks
Hurricane Electric Internet Services
NAME
mbadblocks - scan an MSDOS floppy and mark its unused bad
blocks as bad.
SYNOPSIS
mbadblocks drive:
DESCRIPTION
Mbadblocks scans an MSDOS 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.
SEE ALSO
mtools(1)
BUGS
This should (but doesn't :-( ) also try to salvage bad
blocks which are in use by reading them repeatedly, and
then mark them bad.
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