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I had an SSD start failing writes, which quickly made it fail fsck, so I couldn't boot. I rescued pretty much all the data that mattered with dd. The arbitrary
by topaz0 4y ago
I had an SSD start failing writes, which quickly made it fail fsck, so I couldn't boot. I rescued pretty much all the data that mattered with dd. The arbitrary offset for starting the copy was essential, because the failing SSD would occasionally fail reads in the middle of copying.
- indigodaddy 4y agoThat would be a good use case for ddrescue, which attempts to deal with bad blocks. I actually usually just wind up using it instead of dd for dd-like needs, as it has progress by default.
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