Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 01:25:50PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/12/2016 12:26 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >Le 12/11/2016 à 18:22, Richard Owlett a écrit : > >> > ddrescue /dev/sda /mnt/defective_drive.img > /mnt/defective_drive.log >

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 13 Nov 2016 at 08:54:05 +1300, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 13/11/16 08:25, Richard Owlett wrote: > >I've gone to lenghts to defeat Debian's attempts to out-M$ Wm Gates. > > Redmond is now our ally against the closed garden at Cupertino, with cloud > image support, open-sourced language

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-12 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 13/11/16 08:25, Richard Owlett wrote: I've gone to lenghts to defeat Debian's attempts to out-M$ Wm Gates. Redmond is now our ally against the closed garden at Cupertino, with cloud image support, open-sourced language platforms, and even Ubuntu integration on the desktop. We've always

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/12/2016 12:26 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 12/11/2016 à 18:22, Richard Owlett a écrit : ddrescue /dev/sda /mnt/defective_drive.img /mnt/defective_drive.log (...) Can this be run as a user, or are root permissions required. Unless the user has read permission on the raw device, it

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-12 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 12/11/2016 à 18:22, Richard Owlett a écrit : ddrescue /dev/sda /mnt/defective_drive.img /mnt/defective_drive.log (...) Can this be run as a user, or are root permissions required. Unless the user has read permission on the raw device, it must be run as root. My defective drive is

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/12/2016 2:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/12/2016 1:31 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: On 11/11/2016 10:38 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I was wondering about that. https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html is not first time user friendly. Will re-read after a good

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/11/2016 10:45 PM, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Richard, On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 03:31:21PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: How big might the logfile be when trying to recover a known flaky 300 GB drive. I've lots of space? Some convienient, some not. TL;DR: this depends on how many bad sectors

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-11 Thread Christian Seiler
On 11/11/2016 10:38 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I was wondering about that. > https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html is > not first time user friendly. Will re-read after a good night's > sleep. Will also look for appropriate tutorials. Suggestions? Well, I would

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Richard, On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 03:31:21PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > How big might the logfile be when trying to recover a known flaky 300 > GB drive. I've lots of space? Some convienient, some not. TL;DR: this depends on how many bad sectors you expect to find. If the number is likely

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:49:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I had been removed after becoming unreliable. Sorry to hear that. Advanced years don't come on their own, do they? (Sorry, couldn't resist it)

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/11/2016 11:49 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le primidi 21 brumaire, an CCXXV, Andy Smith a écrit : You are better off using GNU ddrescue for taking images of possibly-failing devices. IIRC, there is a catch there: there is another program with a very similar name that does not work the same

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/11/2016 12:13 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2016-11-11 at 12:37, Christian Seiler wrote: Hi, Am 11. November 2016 17:57:27 MEZ, schrieb Andy Smith : Hi Richard, On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:49:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I was considering using dd to copy the

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-11-11 at 12:37, Christian Seiler wrote: > Hi, > > Am 11. November 2016 17:57:27 MEZ, schrieb Andy Smith > : > >> Hi Richard, >> >> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:49:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> I was considering using dd to copy the entire drive to a >>>

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-11 Thread Nicolas George
Le primidi 21 brumaire, an CCXXV, Andy Smith a écrit : > You are better off using GNU ddrescue for taking images of > possibly-failing devices. IIRC, there is a catch there: there is another program with a very similar name that does not work the same way. Be careful when installing it. >

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-11 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, Am 11. November 2016 17:57:27 MEZ, schrieb Andy Smith : >Hi Richard, > >On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:49:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I was considering using dd to copy the entire drive to a *SINGLE* >> partition of a 1 TB drive with the intention making a "byte

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Richard, On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:49:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I was considering using dd to copy the entire drive to a *SINGLE* > partition of a 1 TB drive with the intention making a "byte perfect" > of of the defective drive to a new 300 GB drive at a later time to > then