On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Tomek CEDRO <tomek.cedro_at_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 MoreReceived on Fri Dec 07 2012 - 22:25:26 UTC
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