From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 6 17:23:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6413616A4CE for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:23:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.speakeasy.net (mail1.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E933843D5C for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:23:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 546 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2004 17:23:01 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Dec 2004 17:23:01 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 3349144; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:23:01 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Matt Navarre References: <41B379EE.9090503@cox.net> <41B4945D.6000309@cox.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 06 Dec 2004 12:23:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: <41B4945D.6000309@cox.net> Message-ID: <44fz2jjq8a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 8 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk problems - hard error reading fsbn NNNNNNNN (Bullet dodged) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:23:02 -0000 Matt Navarre writes: > Now, on to the damaged sectors, how to recover the data? dd stops when > it hits bad blocks, so we can't use that to copy the slice. same with > dump(8) as far as I can tell. So. Download dd_rescue from > http://www.garlof.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ Just out of interest: how is that different than "dd conv=noerror"?