Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features

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.