Hi, A while back someone wrote here (I think it was this list) about a dd-like utility that would deal with I/O errors more intelligently (or at least more flexibly). In particular, it could be made to continue on after an I/O error on the input side, skipping the output side commensurately so the output was a copy of the input with those portions that were unreadable filled with zeros. If anyone knows of such a thing, please let me know. Thanks. Randall Schulz
On Sunday 01 May 2005 11:04 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
A while back someone wrote here (I think it was this list) about a dd-like utility that would deal with I/O errors more intelligently (or at least more flexibly). In particular, it could be made to continue on after an I/O error on the input side, skipping the output side commensurately so the output was a copy of the input with those portions that were unreadable filled with zeros.
If anyone knows of such a thing, please let me know.
That sounds like dd_rescue, here... http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64
Scott, On Sunday 01 May 2005 11:25, Scott Leighton wrote:
On Sunday 01 May 2005 11:04 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
A while back someone wrote here (I think it was this list) about a dd-like utility that would deal with I/O errors more intelligently (or at least more flexibly). In particular, it could be made to continue on after an I/O error on the input side, skipping the output side commensurately so the output was a copy of the input with those portions that were unreadable filled with zeros.
If anyone knows of such a thing, please let me know.
That sounds like dd_rescue, here...
That's it. And it's already installed on my system! % dd_rescue -V dd_rescue Version 1.11, garloff@suse.de, GNU GPL ($Id: dd_rescue.c,v 1.50 2005/02/14 00:39:44 garloff Exp $) Thanks!
Scott
Randall Schulz
On 5/1/05, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Scott,
On Sunday 01 May 2005 11:25, Scott Leighton wrote:
On Sunday 01 May 2005 11:04 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
A while back someone wrote here (I think it was this list) about a dd-like utility that would deal with I/O errors more intelligently (or at least more flexibly). In particular, it could be made to continue on after an I/O error on the input side, skipping the output side commensurately so the output was a copy of the input with those portions that were unreadable filled with zeros.
If anyone knows of such a thing, please let me know.
That sounds like dd_rescue, here...
That's it. And it's already installed on my system!
% dd_rescue -V
dd_rescue Version 1.11, garloff@suse.de, GNU GPL ($Id: dd_rescue.c,v 1.50 2005/02/14 00:39:44 garloff Exp $)
Just as an FYI, dd will meet the original requirements with the conv=noerror,sync option. dd_rescue tries even harder. Greg -- Greg Freemyer
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Randall R Schulz
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