* Stephen Berman
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:32:05 +0100 Per Jessen
wrote: Stephen Berman wrote:
An external hard disk of mine became corrupted, and in an effort to save the data on it I dd'd it to another hard disk. Both disks were formatted in Yast (openSUSE 13.1) with a single ext4 partition. But after using dd, now the filesystem is gone from the second disk,
Yes, you've created a copy of the corrupted disk.
I feared as much. Is there any way to save the data (including the filesystem) from a corrupted partition (aside from already having a backup of it)?
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