Never mind.. I finally grabed the source to e2fsprogs and figured it
out.  After watching e2fsck mark the bad block and clean up the partition,
I now understand why certian programs weren't working properly!

On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Ken Bowley wrote:

> I'm being lazy by not looking through the source of e2fsck and badblocks
> to figure this out on my own, but I was hoping that someone would be able
> to help me with this one.
> 
> I have a drive that seems to work perfectly fine, except for getting these
> error messages from the kernel when it attempts to access a specific block
> on the drive. I've run badblocks on the partition (even got the nice error
> message from the kernel when badblocks hit the offending block), but it
> didn't report anything as being bad.  Looking through the man page for
> e2fsck, it says to feed it the file created by badblocks in order for it
> to add blocks to the table of blocks not to be used, but since badblocks
> doesn't want to believe that there is anything wrong, I'm currently stuck
> here slaming my head against the drive in the hopes that it will get
> better. :)
> 
> Now for the simple form of the question:
> 
> 	Does anyone know the format of the file created	by badblocks that
> 	can be passed to e2fsck for marking blocks as bad?
> 
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