From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 7 22:34:35 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE34C425 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 22:34:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from b.smeelen@ose.nl) Received: from mail.ose.nl (mail.ose.nl [212.178.134.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 627C98FC15 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 22:34:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Footer: b3NlLm5s Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.ose.nl (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher AES256-SHA (256 bits)) for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 23:34:27 +0100 Message-ID: <50C26EF3.5070300@ose.nl> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:34:27 +0100 From: Bas Smeelen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features References: <50C26999.6090802@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50C26999.6090802@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:34:35 -0000 On 12/07/12 23:11, Chuck Burns wrote: > On 12/7/2012 3:50 PM, CeDeROM wrote: >> Hello :-) >> >> I have tried to chceck for badblocks on my / but I did not find >> badblocks >> program on LiveCD and there is no option to install it. This is very >> useful >> utility, please add it as part of LiveCD :-) >> >> Also there is a problem with DHCP based workstations using LiveCD - >> although interface gets configured it is impossible to update >> /etc/resolv.conf (by dhclient and by hand) and so this workstation >> pretty >> useless for IPv4 (is it more usable on IPv6?). Please update :-) >> >> Thank you :-) >> Tomek >> >> > > dd if=/dev/zer of=/dev/ada0 > > ^^^ There's your "badblocks" program. Any hard drive made in the last > decade have been self-remapping.. Attempting to write to a bad block > will cause the hard drive to remap an unused sector into it's place, > until the drive runs out of said "unused" backup sectors, and at that > time, will begin simply begin just "losing" storage space... IE the > number of total sectors on the drive will begin to shrink. > :) /dev/zero Badblocks is outdated for more than 17 years I guess The dd mentioned above will let the firmware remap all bad sectors until there are no spare sectors left (and wipe anything on disk as a bonus :) ;then you can begin to think about replacing your harddrive. As for DHCP, it works for me when booting from a netinstall for instance or going to fixit. Tomek, please try to describe more accurately what you are doing and try to accomplish Cheers