9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features

[Chuck Burns]

On 12/7/2012 3:50 PM, CeDeROM wrote:
> Hello :-)
>
> I have tried to chceck for badblocks on my / but I did not find badblocks
> program on LiveCD and there is no option to install it. This is very useful
> utility, please add it as part of LiveCD :-)
>
> Also there is a problem with DHCP based workstations using LiveCD -
> although interface gets configured it is impossible to update
> /etc/resolv.conf (by dhclient and by hand) and so this workstation pretty
> useless for IPv4 (is it more usable on IPv6?). Please update :-)
>
> Thank you :-)
> Tomek
>
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dd if=/dev/zer of=/dev/ada0

^^^ There's your "badblocks" program.  Any hard drive made in the last 
decade have been self-remapping..  Attempting to write to a bad block 
will cause the hard drive to remap an unused sector into it's place, 
until the drive runs out of said "unused" backup sectors, and at that 
time, will begin simply begin just "losing" storage space... IE the 
number of total sectors on the drive will begin to shrink.

-- 
Chuck Burns <break19 at gmail.com>