Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 17:25:24 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Tomek CEDRO <tomek.cedro@gmail.com> Cc: Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK22Nbdr8z1s5_bK_7e8fVXU2Hm=Tk4iW1PDFyQF=T-s%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFYkXjnkdjjRhuU6nUYCo4bHMiB9WspQy1Da9ZWs=0cNzYQJeA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFYkXj=R=V=3pUH9FbKq3pdqtga-EuJuTB1avZxi2bkLhUs5WA@mail.gmail.com> <50C26999.6090802@gmail.com> <50C26EF3.5070300@ose.nl> <CAFYkXjnkdjjRhuU6nUYCo4bHMiB9WspQy1Da9ZWs=0cNzYQJeA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Tomek CEDRO <tomek.cedro@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. -- Adam Vande More
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