> - power off you hard drive in process to get real read failure (EIO), if > you have nothing to loose on your hdd :) > > Putting the file on an (old) flash drive and pull it midway might be a bit easier (and safer). Could also try and read a file off a failed drive if you still have one lying around, always some interesting results doing that.
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