[NBLUG/talk] hard drive death, filesystem types

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:28:55AM -0800, Kyle Rankin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:20:03PM -0800, Scott Doty wrote:
> > Just wanted to mention that dd can be made to skip errors -- from the man
> > page:
> > 
> >        noerror
> >               continue after read errors
> > 
> > Hope you guys have a Happy Holidays! :)
> > 
> >  -Scott
> 
> Of course the problem is that it does just that, skips the errors, so
> apparently if you run that on a damaged drive, it won't replace the error
> section with a zero, it will just skip it, so you end up with an image that
> is potentially smaller than your actual partition.

I think "dd conv=noerror,sync" would address that, but I don't really have a
viable way to test that theory right now, and without knowing for sure,
tools designed specifically for the job of copying data off of damaged
drives are safer, I'm sure.
-- 
Eric Eisenhart
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