Re: Accessing crashed disk

[Warren Young <warren@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 13, 2017, at 5:15 PM, J Martin Rushton <martinrushton56@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> # dd if=/dev/sdc of=/home/dd-copy-of-sdc

Better, use ddrescue:

   https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/

dd will do unfortunate things like quit early on I/O errors, even if later blocks would read just fine.  ddrescue assumes the input file is dodgy and tries to cope.
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos