-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2014-07-04 at 19:11 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 07/04/2014 05:00 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Another tool is clonezilla, using its own boot CD. It is text mode, and very good for cloning disks and partitions, conserving space, and, I believe, expanding the destination space if wanted. However, I have never tried it on a damaged disk.
This disk isn't too far gone. It currently has 34 sectors marked as bad. They can still be read, they just have to be read numerous times. There has only been one sector 'lost' (data loss) that was identified and the data restored. I think I will be able to get at 100% read off the current disk. I'll make friends with dd_rhelp and take a look at clonezilla.
Just saw a post on the forums, and it seems that clonezilla aborts on finding bad sectors. It then reccomends using the option "--resque", but as I have not seen it myself, I do not really know where to apply it. Even if the damage is very limited, just a single bad sector can make some tools to abort. Even dd with default options (ie, none), will produce a bad copy. If there are several bad sectors, tools can take an awful ammount of time. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAlO5PgMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XTXQCbBXTatwxghu4bfEuSJmacM5Qh QhIAmMP3Rr43RGPoqnIgUHla86gZEsA= =wwa2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org