From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 7 23:25:26 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 633D729E for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 23:25:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCB48FC14 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 23:25:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f182.google.com with SMTP id 16so1203737obc.13 for ; Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:25:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=1bcr7E0Fj+IPE0W0EVh9D2WX3p/CKsQD1EZ5l/9Qzuk=; b=GQGzayiDCbA18O5wODe54zTf5M66Nw0YjNKb0hxA9r+b0Q4LKWeaFJBdmpd1d3QwMw Zl0J5FbsM4eQawvH31BvE+IK9NmQthiQEHBsWY2xqcFx6AfpuGBo9L3FhZlJpfNHGzxb fi6VkqzZ54zSTRmGJtXqTEFdNhY9yHRq6Z9EgWWt8eNfLP7xCitoWlh0Mx4hYE7+vqFD sH7TVHWORkd/L3N+MIpgWXsJKcJwP6jf2faHYNK8x9AXEPCwnLRZOwlOVivClx0E8Dc1 rFuJwMR9Y246b2OXO6wPOJwV9ueEwr8O7ofBBAUM9a5KbLifQeK5uR93snt8EfiEO+af RXYw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.131.37 with SMTP id oj5mr4013353obb.54.1354922725048; Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:25:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.80.104 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 15:25:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <50C26999.6090802@gmail.com> <50C26EF3.5070300@ose.nl> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 17:25:24 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features From: Adam Vande More To: Tomek CEDRO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: Bas Smeelen , freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 23:25:26 -0000 On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Tomek CEDRO 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