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

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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

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