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From: Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org>
Subject: Re: recovery of crashed reiserfs disk?
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 12:57:24 +0100
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Thanks a lot to all those who responded.

I'll try that dd_rescue utility as soon as I have fully backed up
my current data to CDs, and tell you how well it went.

> http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/

As a wishlist item, to emulate the same effect without requiring another
same-sized disk, maybe there could be an option to mount reiserfs read-only
while considering read-errors as blank sectors?

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