Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 20:10:55 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Chuck Burns <break19@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1212072008280.87648@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <50C26999.6090802@gmail.com> References: <CAFYkXj=R=V=3pUH9FbKq3pdqtga-EuJuTB1avZxi2bkLhUs5WA@mail.gmail.com> <50C26999.6090802@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Chuck Burns wrote: > dd if=/dev/zer of=/dev/ada0 > > ^^^ There's your "badblocks" program. Any hard drive made in the last decade > have been self-remapping.. That should be /dev/zero. And this will be very slow, going one 512-byte block at a time. Using a 64K or 128K buffer (bs=128K) will speed it up tremendously.
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