Dear friends, I wanted to thank everyone for contributing and helping out. In the end, I decided to go for ddrescue (because I could not find jetcat-mod beyond some old posts of Michael online). In any case, ddrescue copied everything with a meter in around six hours. It also reported a few bad bits (in the old drive) and I am now trying to figure out how to identify the files with those bad bits. Thank you again for all your help and discussion. I learnt a lot of new and cool way of doing things! I have said this in the past, but I love this discussion group for how helpful and free with time and suggestions people are. My father-in-law uses Ubuntu for historical reasons and they do not come even close in those discussion lists (in fact they are very far). Best wishes, Ranjan On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 17:08:30 -0600 JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Cameron, > +1 > > > On 09/08/2018 04:48 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 09Sep2018 06:45, Michael D. Setzer II <msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 8 Sep 2018 at 17:10, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > [...] > >>> The link in the footer points to g4l, but nothing in your message > >>> mentioning jetcat-mod makes that connection. Only an off-list message > >>> from you explained it, and you then repeated the information on-list. > >> > >> In my original message to the thread I specified that I had been the > >> maintainer of the g4l disk imaging project since 2004, and made some > >> comments. Later there was talk of using dd to do the copy, and I > >> pulled the > >> one line from the 2000+ line script that specifically does the clone > >> copy > >> process. > >> > >> The entire project is on sourceforge with the source code. Project is > >> completely free, no paid options, no donations. Just an option that some > >> might find useful. > >> > >> Wasn't trying to force it on anyone, and just sharing what I had seen > >> over the > >> years. > > > > As the one on the tar/cp side of this discussion, I'd like to support > > Michael here. > > > > He did indeed say he was the g4l maintainer. And he was perfectly > > clear when he post his dd pipeline that it came from the g4l package. > > It isn't unreasonable at all that it uses a tool that is part of that > > same package. > > > > There's any number of "progress reporting cat" type commands out > > there; I've got one of my own called prcat [1] (just a perl script > > accepting a commandline buffer size, no fancy threading or parallelism). > > > > IMO there's little value in this bickering over an _example_ command > > line whose function is clear on inspection just because it has an odd > > but obviously equivalent to "cat" command in the middle. Particularly > > since nothing in this discussion is Fedora specific; it all applies to > > pretty much any Linux system and nearly applies to any UNIX system in > > general (such as the Mac I'm typing this on). Can we please go back to > > _technical_ discussion instead of this? > > > > To satisfy the "no link to the code" people: > > [1] https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/tip/bin/prcat > > > > Cheers, > > Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
