Dick Streefland wrote:
David Greaves <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | so, the plan in order to try and extract data: | * insert new drive as /dev/sdd1 | * dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdd1 | * mdadm /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sda1 | * physically swap /dev/sda and /dev/sdd so /dev/sdd | * mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1 | * fsck filesystem and expect to lose files where there were bad blocks | * wait for new drive (special delivery - tomorrow morning) | * insert new drive as /dev/sdd | * mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdd1
You might want to check out "ddrescue", which is a version of "dd"
that is designed to read from a disk with bad sectors.
That was it - thanks :)
I was googling 'dd recover' and various 'badblocks' etc... not 'dd rescue'
Also found dd_rhelp which looks sensible.
fingers crossed that it works...
David
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