-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2009-03-09 at 23:26 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc bs=1G conv=noerror
Please note, never use noerror without also using sync.
Why? I'm curious. I can make a guess, but I'm not sure, it is not mentioned in the manual: noerror continue after read errors sync pad every input block with NULs to ibs-size; when used with block or unblock, pad with spaces rather than NULs Do you mean, that without "sync", the output would just skip the remaining bytes of a block after an error, meaning the output would simply be "smaller", with pieces missing? Because, as Sid did an 'xfs_repair' on the result, it means either there was no error, or that the gaps were filled :-? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm15wMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WBSwCdFrwL0udyMZWf51d73LPDsR51 MjgAniyEViB6Jgm9nCCxuX8Vt+T65IPF =cuMo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org