On 02/12/2014 02:32 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
You can use any of those two, either dd_rhelp or ddrescue.
Just a side note: while such specialized tools have further functionality like adapting the read block size, merging two such rescue images, etc., it is still basically possible with plain dd: you have to use some options to avoid short reads (iflag=fullblock), to add padding of unreadable parts (conv=sync), and to continue on read errors (conv=noerror): dd \ if=/dev/sda1 \ of=sda1.img \ iflag=fullblock \ conv=noerror,sync We'll add such an example to the upstream coreutils Texinfo manual - as well as a link to http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ Discussion there: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-02/msg00011.html Have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org