On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:31:46PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > I recall a case when I had a hard disk that had got bad sectors and > it wasn't accessible through normal mounting anymore. > Then a tool came into the game that - I believe - Poul Henning had > recommended or written for this purpose. > > It copies a disk sector by sector to a file (kind of dd), but > ignores errors, it just skips sectors it couldn't read (after a > couple > of retries). The result was, that one had a - albeit - worm-eaten - > image of the disk allowing to access the filesystem > and getting to the important files with a little luck these not > being amongst the corrupted data. > > Anyone knowing what this little tool was named? Something like > diskcopy, devcopy, I forgot. > > -- > Christoph
dd conv=noerror? Yuri _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
