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Re: dd (coreutils 6.10)
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: dd (coreutils 6.10) |
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Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:35:47 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071008) |
Jon Grant wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am running dd from coreutils 6.10 on the latest Knoppix disc, trying
> to copy a failing drive to a new drive so i can try mount the partition.
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> I noticed that dd tries the to read the same 512-byte block 40 times
> before giving up.
In addition if dd can't read the block at all it will not
write anything to the output, and so your partitions will
be even more messed up.
ddrescue may be better sorted to your needs.
Pádraig.