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Re: [opensuse-factory] cloning a hard drive with YaST
- From: Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:44:32 +0100
- Message-id: <20090309134432.GQ22848@xxxxxxx>
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 01:35:19PM +0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
For disks with bad blocks, you usually want to use 'ddrescue' instead of
dd. It tries harder to get what's readable, doesn't give up and doesn't
need manual intervention as dd.
(rsync to grab files, ddrescue to grab a (broken) disk image for further
processing)
Peter
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I have a suspicion that the badblocks on the source drive is causing a
problem. When I used dd, I perhaps should have used the "noerror" option
then do xfs_repair.
Thanks, guys, I shall have another look.
Regards
Sid.
For disks with bad blocks, you usually want to use 'ddrescue' instead of
dd. It tries harder to get what's readable, doesn't give up and doesn't
need manual intervention as dd.
(rsync to grab files, ddrescue to grab a (broken) disk image for further
processing)
Peter
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#opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net
Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure
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