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Re:Debian-installer, mdadm configuration and the Bad Blocks ... by jwilk on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:39AM (#24479431)
linux.die.net man pages tend to be badly outdated. And you can't easily tell this is the case, because because they strip version information.

For example, this one doesn't document the -B option, which was added in 2011(!):

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/...

Better man page link:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/badblocks.8.html

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Re:Debian-installer, mdadm configuration and the Bad Blocks ... by teddyh on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:32PM (#24484071)
If you use Debian, I would suggest https://manpages.debian.org/stable/e2fsprogs/badblocks.8.en.... (where you can replace “stable” with whatever designator you like.)
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