Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm tangled up !! I plead for 5 or 6 lines to copy-n-paste.
My proposal deviates from some aspects of your original plan. I would try something like ddrescue -p /dev/sdc1 /mnt/my_sdb6/my_sdc1 /mnt/my_sdb6/sdc1_log Details: /dev/sdc1 is a partition of the defective disk. /mnt/my_sdb6 is the mount point of the filesystem on your partition sdb6. /mnt/my_sdb6/my_sdc1 is the data file name for the copied data. /mnt/my_sdb6/sdc1_log records what ddrescue might need for further read attempts. -p creates the data file with full size (i understand), so that you know early when your filesystem is full. Why: Copying disk to partition is not the best thing to do if you want to use the copy result directly. If the original disk contains partitions - even if it is only a single one -, then each should get into a separate storage container. So you can mount these containers. Storage container can be a whole disk device, a partition of a disk device, or a data file in a large filesystem which can represent large files (i.e. a normal Linux filesystem in a large partition). Most normal and harmless to use is a filesystem. So if you have a partition which is large enough for the whole original disk, then i advise to equip it with a filesystem (by e.g. mkfs) and to mount it somewhere (e.g. as /mnt/my_sdb6). Have a nice day :) Thomas