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Re: Question about dd
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: Question about dd |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:45:41 +0000 |
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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.
- Question about dd, Castor, David A Capt MNF-I JNCC-I Centaf LNO, 2007/11/30
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