[ubuntu-us-in] hard drive tools* ssh ftp suggestions

[Simón Ruiz]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Simón Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I also ran a "dd if=/dev/zero of=dev.sda.1stpatch" to
>  create a properly sized file full of zeros to replace the damaged
>  sector.

Erm, I meant "dd if=/dev/zero of=dev.sda.1stpatch bs=4096 count=1".

Otherwise it'd just fill every unwritten sector on the target disk
with zeroes, and you'd end up with a huge, empty file.