Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 06:07:04 -0600 From: Chuck Burns <break19@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features Message-ID: <50C32D68.2070806@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1212072008280.87648@wonkity.com> References: <CAFYkXj=R=V=3pUH9FbKq3pdqtga-EuJuTB1avZxi2bkLhUs5WA@mail.gmail.com> <50C26999.6090802@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1212072008280.87648@wonkity.com>
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On 12/7/2012 9:10 PM, Warren Block wrote: > 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. my 0 key gets stuck sometimes.. sue me. :P -- Chuck Burns <break19@gmail.com>
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