## Note of warning

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           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 follow
           ing 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  sal
           vage  bad  blocks which are in use by reading them repeat
           edly, and then mark them bad.

## See Also

           Mtools' texinfo doc

## Viewing the texi doc

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           mtools's  texinfo  documentation. However, this process is
           only approximative, and some items,  such  as  crossrefer
           ences,  footnotes and indices are lost in this translation
           process.  Indeed, these items have no  appropriate  repre
           sentation in the manpage format.  Moreover, not all infor
           mation 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

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