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Many file systems have the ability to mark a data unit as damaged
This was needed with older hard disks that did not have the capability to handle errors
The operating system would detect that a data unit was bad and mark it as such so that it would not be allocated to a file
Today's modern hard disks can detect a bad sector and replace it with a spare sector, almost rendering the file system "bad sector" functionality obsolete.
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