dealing with a slightly flaky USB drive; unkillable bash process

[Adam Funk]

On 2015-09-22, Liam Proven wrote:

> Another possibility:
>
> Image the entire drive, encryption and all, onto another volume with
> the ``gdd_rescue'' command. Then mount the new copy and try to recover
> the data from that.

That sounds interesting.  I've been reading the info pages for that
--- I guess I can recover the partition on the USB drive to a file
with something like this

ddrescue <options> /dev/sdc1 path/to/some_file path/to/logfile

and then use losetup on the output file?