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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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diskscan Perform Surface Analysis

Synopsis

diskscan [-W][-n][-y] raw-device
					

Description

Use diskscan on IA systems to perform surface analysis on a portion of a hard disk. The disk portion can be a raw partition or slice identified by its raw device name. By default, the specified portion of the disk is read (nondestructive) and errors are reported on standard error. In addition, a progress report is printed on standard out. You should save the list of bad blocks in a file and later feed them into addbadsec(1M) to remap them.

Note

The format(1M) command is available to format, label, analyze, and repair SCSI disks. This command is included with the diskscan, addbadsec(1M), fdisk(1M), and fmthard(1M) commands available for IA systems. To format ...

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