9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features

[Adam Vande More]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Tomek CEDRO <tomek.cedro at gmail.com> wrote:

> As I get ffs_valloc kernel panic on my / I want to check for badblocks but
> cannot do that from the system itself so I need another FreeBSD instance to
> run badblocks on unmounted /. There are no badblocks on LiveCD and I cannot
> simply download it with pkg_add -r. Installing another system just to test
> existing one seems silly. It would be nice to finally have swiss army knife
> on generic LiveCD FreeBSD install, not using linux windows hirens etc :-)
>
> I have just started dd if=root of=root from LiveCD, Ill let you know if
> that worked :-)


You probalby want a filesystem tool but it's impossible to tell since you
didn't include all the relevant info.  Try fsck.

If you did want a "badblocks" tool from the base system, /sbin/recoverdisk
is the best.  dd is fine, but not as through as it.

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Adam Vande More