dealing with a slightly flaky USB drive; unkillable bash process

[Adam Funk]

On 2015-10-14, Liam Proven wrote:

> On 13 October 2015 at 21:52, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
>> Thanks very much for suggesting that.  I tried the "lazy option":
>>
>> sudo ddrescue -d /dev/sdb2 dodgy-usb.img dodgy.usb.log
>>
>> and it worked brilliantly: it recovered the whole partition (about
>> 300 GB) in 3 hours & a bit, & the resulting image file works with
>> losetup.  AFAICT all the contents of the resulting mount are intact.
>> The strangest thing is that ddrescue did not report any errors!
>
>
>:-D I am very glad indeed to hear that!

Thanks very much for suggesting that command; I hadn't heard of it
before.