[kwlug-disc] Hard disk smartctl errors

[Paul Nijjar]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:17:21PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 08:51:49PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> >> Looking at gddrescue examples, they all assume another disk with a
> >> spare partition to recover to.
> >
> > You don't need a spare partition. You do need another disk
> > with sufficient space. You can just write a giant image file
> > to this second disk.
> 
> This is what I am trying to do:
> 
> ddrescue -d -n -r3 -vv /dev/sdc2 /data/ddrescue-20141015.img
> /data/ddrescue-20141015.log
> 
> Create an image, then mount it with loopback, or directly with ntfs-3g
> and see what I can get ...

If you feel the drive is failing you are probably best off following
the instructions on the wiki: 

ddrescue --no-split /dev/sdc2 /data/ddrescue-20141015.img
/data/ddrescue-20141015.log

ddrescue --direct --max-retries=3 /dev/sdc2
/data/ddrescue-20141015.img /data/ddrescue-20141015.log


- Paul

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