[Info-vax] analyze/disk errors

abrsvc dansabrservices at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 5 14:59:59 EST 2013


The documentation is correct, EXCEPT that badblk.sys is a reserved file that has a particular file id that cannot be changed.  The documentation should have specified that these files won't work this way.  "The badblk.sys file contains a list of suspected bad blocks on the volume that have not yet been turned over to the bad block file." (From VMS File System Internals by Kirby McCoy page 59).

So, in this case the documentation was correct, but incomplete.

Dan



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