Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 20:26:20 -0800 From: Matt Navarre <mnavarre@cox.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk problems - hard error reading fsbn NNNNNNNN (Bullet dodged) Message-ID: <41B530EC.70605@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <44fz2jjq8a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <41B379EE.9090503@cox.net> <41B4945D.6000309@cox.net> <44fz2jjq8a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote: >Matt Navarre <mnavarre@cox.net> 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"? > > > Huh, you learn something new every day. Actually dd_rescue looks closer to dd conv=noerror,sync since it replaces input errors with NULs. Anyway dd_rescue worked for me, tho I suspect that dd would have worked also, if I'd read the manpage closer. But, hey, Bad Disk + No Backups = Major Freakout Mode.
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