Jon Grant wrote: > Hi, > > I am running dd from coreutils 6.10 on the latest Knoppix disc, trying > to copy a failing drive to a new drive so i can try mount the partition. > > I noticed that dd tries the to read the same 512-byte block 40 times > before giving up.
In addition if dd can't read the block at all it will not write anything to the output, and so your partitions will be even more messed up. ddrescue may be better sorted to your needs. Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
