9 Mar
2009
9 Mar
'09
13:44
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 01:35:19PM +0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
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 -- Contact: admin@opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin@suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development