Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 09:29 -0600, Eric Wald wrote: >> If you need to recover your data, and absolutely nothing can mount your >> hard drive as is, you might have to use dd to copy the whole thing to a >> single file, and fiddle with that until you can mount it through a >> virtual file system or loopback device. > > Actually, either dd_rescue or ddrescue would better when trying to pull > data off a failing disk.
Good call. I'll have to remember that command for the future. - Eric /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
