[NBLUG/talk] Recovering data from a failing hard disk

[mrp]

I wrote:
> It's also possible that I was wrong about it knowing what to do with
> sparse files (where the blocks used aren't continuous in the address
> space of the file... pretty common with database files). 

Oops... turns out that there's now a '--sparse' option to cpio that
wasn't there in SysV R3.2 (when I learned to use it.)  It takes blocks
of nulls and treats them as unallocated blocks.

  -- Mitch