Castor, David A Capt MNF-I JNCC-I Centaf LNO wrote: > Regarding the dd tool, the man page seems to be lacking information > about how noerror handles a read errors when encountered...does dd drop > the entire block of data? does it pad the output to compensate for the > unreadable data?
I don't think it does pad unreadable data. Have a look at dd_rescue project or the equivalent ddrescue project (I kid you not). I wonder could the functionality of the above programs be merged into dd as an option? Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
