'\" t .\" Note: this must be run through tbl before nroff. .\" The magic cookie on the first line triggers this under some man program .TH MBADBLOCKS 1 local .SH NAME mbadblocks \- scan an MSDOS floppy and mark its unused bad blocks as bad. .SH SYNOPSIS .B mbadblocks drive: .SH DESCRIPTION .I 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. .SH SEE ALSO mtools(1) .SH 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.