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ddrescue: reread only good sectors?

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Before imaging the corrupted filesystem to a file on another hard drive, I decided to dry-run `ddrescue (throwing rescued output to /dev/null`) just to see how much data is unreadable: # ddrescue -d -b 4096 -r 3 -f /dev/sda1 /dev/null sda1.log In the end it took 3 days to finish. Now I'm ready to make a real image, but I don't want to wait another 3 days until it finishes. But, luckily because I have a logfile, is it possible to force `ddrescue` to rescue only the good sectors and do not touch bad ones? Having read some documentation, I've came up with the following idea: # ddrescue -d -b 4096 --fill=+ /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1.img sda1.log Will this work? Is there another (preferred) way of rereading only good sectors?
Asked by evaldaz (191 rep)
Jan 10, 2013, 11:55 AM
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