On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Carlos E. R.
On 2013-10-22 14:02, Greg Freemyer wrote:
That means a output file that represents a filesystem is totally unparsable after the first partial block because the offset from the start of the file is wrong.
I normally solve this with conv=noerror,sync
Unfortunately that null fills the rest of the block which can be a real problem if you want to use large blocks.
If there is a way to invoke dd with large blocks with no risk of excessive data loss every time a media error is hit, I'd love to know about it.
That's what "dd_rhelp" is for :-)
That was new to me, but per http://www.kalysto.org/utilities/dd_rhelp/index.en.html it is recommended that ddrescue be used instead. ddrescue is in 13.1 (It is in the package gnu_ddrescue) Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org