14 Dec
2017
14 Dec
'17
6:57 p.m.
On Dec 13, 2017, at 5:15 PM, J Martin Rushton martinrushton56@btinternet.com wrote:
# dd if=/dev/sdc of=/home/dd-copy-of-sdc
Better, use ddrescue:
https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/
dd will do unfortunate things like quit early on I/O errors, even if later blocks would read just fine. ddrescue assumes the input file is dodgy and tries to cope.