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Re: dd hung up by disk errors




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 bulk of your data,
you may try to fill the holes using count to not overwrite stuff you

You might want to look for dd_rhelp, a script around dd_rescue that automates that process.


A.

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Ansgar Esztermann
DV-Systemadministration
Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Abteilung 105


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