@tonymountifield Does this still hold true? https://superuser.com/a/1075837
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 7:21 AM Tony Mountifield tony@softins.co.uk wrote:
In article E02FA554-9D6D-4E7D-8A78-5FBDE1DE939D@kicp.uchicago.edu, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
On Sep 26, 2020, at 8:05 AM, Jerry Geis jerry.geis@gmail.com wrote:
I have a disk that is flagging errors, attempting to rescue the data.
I tried dd first - if gets about 117G of 320G disk and stops
incrementing
the save image any more.
did you try
dd conv=noerror …
this flag makes dd not stop on input error. Whatever is irrecoverable is
irrecoverable, but this way you will get stuff
beyond failure point.
You need conv=noerror,sync so that unreadable sectors get replaced by zeros instead of not being written out at all. Without sync, the filesystem geometry on the destination image will be wrong after the first error.
You also need bs=4096 so that ONLY the bad sector(s) get zeroed, and not the surrounding ones. If you have, say, bs=1M, then you will get a megabyte of zeros if any block within that megabyte is bad.
I'm speaking from recent experience!
Cheers Tony
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