From: Daniel47@teranews.com   
      
   Jim Beard wrote:   
   > On 04/19/2013 09:11 AM, Daniel47@teranews.com wrote:   
   >> Wolfgang Schelongowski wrote:   
   >>> "Daniel47@teranews.com"  writes:   
   >>>   
   >>> [saving a 'broken' partition/disk]   
   >>>   
   >>>> Now, just in case the HD is dying, I'd better dd this drive to   
   >>>> my spare,   
   >>>> as suggested by others.   
   >>>   
   >>> You want to use dd_rescue instead of dd AND send all its   
   >>> (error-)messages into a file. RTFM of dd_rescue first, of course.   
   >>   
   >> Wolfgang, firstly, I have my Home (sda8) up and running again, so   
   >> do I really need dd_rescue?? I was just meaning to use the dd   
   >> command to copy my sda drive to a spare (sdb) drive, as a back-up.   
   >>   
   >> I tried man dd_rescue but was told "No manual entry for dd_rescue".   
   >   
   > As mentioned elsewhere, there seem to be three versions of dd rescue,   
   > and whichever you use you will have to install it.  It is not installed   
   > by default, but is available in the Mandriva repositories.   
   >   
   > The problem with dd is that it chokes when it encounters bad sectors.   
   > The dd rescue versions deal with such problems, with what each will do   
   > in specific circumstances differing.   
   >   
   > Cheers!   
   >   
   > jim b.   
      
   O.K., Jim, thanks for that.   
      
   I thought that the dd command didn't care if the sector was occupied or   
   not, or good/bad/indifferent, it just copied the sector, whatever it was!   
      
   Daniel   
      
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