On Tuesday 23 May 2006 17:14, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > Just to make it clear - even without really getting deep into your > problem, you should know that 'dd conv=noerror' is pointless in your > situation, because it does not write zeros (or anything) instead of the > unreadable sectors - its writes nothing. So all the data after the first > bad sector will be shifted compared to where it should have been, which > will practically appear as a damaged filesystem, probably very damaged.
Also, I'd use 512 bytes blocks for such cases. While it is slower, it will be less prone to errors than 1M blocks, and is the only way I do it when creating images between disks of different sizes, especially when there are errors on the source. --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
