Also, does ddrescue "stop" (as in quit) or is it just stuck there spending a lot of time trying to read one or more bad spots? it is intended to keep trying until it gets something, or gives up and skips to the next track/sector/whatever. If you let it go for a long time (overnight???) does it proceed ? On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 9:15 AM Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > > > > On Sep 26, 2020, at 8:05 AM, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at 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. > > Valeri > > > > > Now I'm trying ddrescue and it also stops about the same point > > > > Thoughts on how to continue past that point ? > > Thanks, > > > > Jerry > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >