Re: [opensuse] Need help!

Shawn Holland schreef:

When ever I pop in any drive (regardless of its FS) I just mount it and
it never complains. Except to spit out IO errors during the copy
process. I don't bother to do a FS check. Like I said, I mount, copy,
unmount. If your lucky enough to have another computer running linux you
can do the same thing. If you only have the one computer then a live cd
should let you boot and then mount the existing drive and then copy to
an external source, just like I do. But doing an FS check is going to
produce those errors when you just need to copy off the data. So just
copy it off :)

Would that be a copy or a dd?
I never had a disk fail in that way, but what I would try:
* dd the faulty disk to an image file on a *very* large good disk
* make a copy of the image file
* mount the image file as a loopback device
* copy whatever you want from the loopback device.

Of course, you would need a second hard disk that is at least twice as
big as the original one. And don't bother with gzipping the image.

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