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* John Nielsen (lists@jnielsen.net) wrote:

> See also sysutils/ddrescue, sysutils/recoverdm and similar (I haven't
> used any of them).

recoverdisk is part of base and was moved from /usr/src/tools to /sbin a
while back.  It will, like these tools in ports, use a large block size
and then use smaller blocks around an unreadable sector, as well as
being able to start where it previously left off.

-- 
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
    http://hur.st/