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This selection checks the number of spare | sectors available on the optical disk. The | |||||||
spare | sectors | are | used | to | reassign | when | defective sectors are encountered during | |
normal usage or during a | format and certify operation. Low availability of spare | |||||||
sectors indicates | that the | disk needs to | be backed up and replaced. Formatting the | |||||
disk | does | not | improve the | availability | of | spare sectors. | ||
You can run this task directly from the AIX command line. The following usage statement describes the syntax of the command:
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