[TriLUG] Linux tools for partition/file retrieval

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Fri, 27 Dec 2019, Steve Litt via TriLUG wrote:

> Note that Joe Mack recommends adding -n (noscrape) to the preceding
> ddrescue command. I don't know the ramifications of doing so.

It skips over bad blocks. If you have dying hardware, you want to recover as 
many blocks as you can while the hardware is still working. After the first 
pass, and if the hardware is still working, you do a 2nd pass where you retry 
the failed blocks many times.

Joe

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