Quote from the bad144(8) manual:
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The format of the information is specified by DEC standard 144, as follows.
The bad sector information is located in the first 5 even numbered
sectors of the last track of the disk pack.  There are five identical
copies of the information, described by the dkbad structure.
-------------------------------------- 8< --------------------------------------

So: would it make sense, leaving some unused space at the end of the disk? 

Or, asked the other way around:
Am I overwriting bad block information when using the disk up to its
end?

Example: if my disk has 120103200 sectors, an my last partition
         starts at 5769279 and is 114333921 in size 
         (5769279+114333921=120103200): Do I have a problem?

Thanks
Chris

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Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc@zhwin.ch
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