From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004@gmx.net>
To: "Kristian Köhntopp" <kris@xn--khntopp-90a.de>
Cc: Vitaly Fertman <vitaly@namesys.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Hard errors, trying to recover
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:16:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40E2D95E.2020908@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406301645.13096.kris@xn--khntopp-90a.de>
Kristian Köhntopp wrote:
>
> 2. When I make an image of a disk, and that image is incomplete
> for whatever reason, I cannot reiserfsck that image because of
> seeks beyond the end of the medium. Again, I'd rather have the
> choice of reiserfsck trying to salvage the incomplete medium
> (assuming all zero data for all missing blocks) or stop with an
> error.
That's why you should NOT use dd. dd is crap for data recovery. Use
dd_rescue instead. It will give you the options of writing zeroes instead
of aborting the copy, reading the disk backwards etc. And reiserfsck
should work perfectly with an image made by dd_rescue.
Carl-Daniel
--
http://www.hailfinger.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-30 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-29 19:39 Hard errors, trying to recover Kristian Koehntopp
2004-06-30 14:02 ` Vitaly Fertman
2004-06-30 14:45 ` Kristian Köhntopp
2004-06-30 15:16 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [this message]
2004-06-30 15:59 ` Vitaly Fertman
2004-06-30 19:42 ` Kristian Köhntopp
2004-07-01 1:04 ` Redeeman
2004-07-01 6:23 ` Raymond A. Meijer
2004-07-01 10:10 ` Dieter Nützel
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