Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features


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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