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diskroaster Multithreaded disk tester that writes and verifies data on raw devices
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Maintainer: pavel.golubinsky@gmail.com search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-09-22 12:51:06
Last Update: 2025-09-22 12:45:26
Commit Hash: bc5971f
License: BSD3CLAUSE
WWW:
https://github.com/favoritelotus/diskroaster
Description:
Diskroaster is a multithreaded disk testing utility that writes and verifies data on a raw disk device. It is designed to stress-test hard drives and SSDs by dividing the disk into sections, writing data in parallel using multiple worker threads, and verifying the written content for integrity.
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Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. sbin/diskroaster
  2. share/man/man8/diskroaster.8.gz
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/diskroaster-1.1.1/catalog.mk
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/diskroaster-1.1.1/LICENSE
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/diskroaster-1.1.1/BSD3CLAUSE
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • diskroaster>0:sysutils/diskroaster
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/diskroaster/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install sysutils/diskroaster
  • pkg install diskroaster
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: diskroaster
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1751785274 SHA256 (diskroaster-1.1.1.tar.bz2) = e6b4b76368e83e214ee7adcae23f41e6354205d6cbff7df9ad0285c5d2206081 SIZE (diskroaster-1.1.1.tar.bz2) = 30720

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
diskroaster
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest1.1.11.1.1-1.1.11.1.1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly-1.1.1--1.1.1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest-1.1.1--1.1.1---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly-1.1.1--1.1.1---
FreeBSD:15:latest1.1.11.1.1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly-1.1.1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest-1.1.1n/a-n/an/a--
This port has no dependencies.
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
sysutils_diskroaster
USES:
tar:bzip2
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://github.com/favoritelotus/diskroaster/releases/download/v1.1.1/
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Number of commits found: 1

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
1.1.1
22 Sep 2025 12:45:26
commit hash: bc5971f85bf2515bc580f0bff45b69aed6b3b185commit hash: bc5971f85bf2515bc580f0bff45b69aed6b3b185commit hash: bc5971f85bf2515bc580f0bff45b69aed6b3b185commit hash: bc5971f85bf2515bc580f0bff45b69aed6b3b185 files touched by this commit
Lars Engels (lme) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Pavel Golubinsky
sysutils/diskroaster: Add new port

Diskroaster is a multithreaded disk testing utility
that writes and verifies data on a raw disk device.
It is designed to stress-test hard drives and
SSDs by dividing the disk into sections,
writing data in parallel using multiple worker threads,
and verifying the written content for integrity.

WWW: https://github.com/favoritelotus/diskroaster
PR:		288073

Number of commits found: 1