Help, my disk array has one dead member
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Wed Mar 22 14:11:33 UTC 2017
Liam Proven schreef op 22-03-2017 14:50:
> On 22 March 2017 at 04:19, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>> dd if=/dev/XXX \
>
>
> No no no!
>
> Do not use ``dd''. DD is not the tool for data recovery, because it
> stops on the first error, and if you try again it will stop at the
> same point. What the OP needs is a tool that continues on errors, and
> logs where the error occurs so that it doesn't have to retry next
> time. This tool is ``ddrescue''.
That's why he had a noerrors parameter.
(noerror).
Karl Auers advice was spot on if you ask me.
Not saying ddrescue wouldn't work, but the command as constructed would
skip erroring sectors.
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