On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:
[snip] > in the GNU manual page [1]. I believe that GNU ddrescue is the better > version - it was inspired by garloff's original work, and makes > improvements, but it operates differently. > Comment. Another reason I moved away from dd (apart from the slow running time) to ddrescue was because of this note related to LVM. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/saw27/notes/backup-hard-disk-partitions.html "Steve Holmes reports that dd with conv=sync,noerror doesn't correctly image disks with LVM2 Logical Volumes. I haven't investigated this. He also points out GNU ddrescue <http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html> ( not the same as dd_rescue mentioned above) which looks useful. According to Steve, ddrescue works finewith LVM2, and some people<http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-ddres...@gnu.org/msg00038.html>seem to suggest it's generally superior to dd_rescue." The partition I would like to get data from is under LVM (previous post). Thanks, -- Valmor
