9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features

[Kevin Oberman]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

ports/sysutils/smartmontools? Most modern disks support S.M.A.R.T and
will log read or write errors as well as perform non-destructive
(though far from comprehensive) testing.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com