On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 23:27 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:43:13AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > I have a bad drive in a laptop and am attempting to salvage what I can
> > with (roughly)
> > dd conv=noerror,sync if=/dev/sda3 of=/nfs/backup
> > where the of is NFS mounted from
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:43:13AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I have a bad drive in a laptop and am attempting to salvage what I can
> with (roughly)
> dd conv=noerror,sync if=/dev/sda3 of=/nfs/backup
> where the of is NFS mounted from another system.
>
> This keeps trying when it encounters a di
On Jul 20, 2009, at 22:26 , Siggy Brentrup wrote:
I'm willing to accept some sectors as lost, but it would really
help if
there were a way to do so quickly. Is there?
I'd skip to about 63G (dont forget to seek), yielding a hole in your
image using noerror. As soon as you have saved the bu
If your bad sectors are local to a particular area of the disk, you
could read sections starting at the end, and moving towards the
beginning after each section is completed.
Later you would concatenate the sections that were recoverable.
Give either iseek=n or skip=n to dd to skip over a portion
On 2009-07-20 at 09:43 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I have a bad drive in a laptop and am attempting to salvage what I can
> with (roughly)
> dd conv=noerror,sync if=/dev/sda3 of=/nfs/backup
> where the of is NFS mounted from another system.
>
> This keeps trying when it encounters a disk read erro
i have never used any of them, but I think ddrescue, gddrescue and
myrescue (apt packages) are made for what you're doing.
good luck,
Tiago Saboga.
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