Re: [tlug] HELP! A possible Linux Rescue CD for my Japanese files!

[Raphael Plasson <plasson@example.com>]

Patrick Niessen wrote:

>
>If your linux boot cd can handle the disk, but not the character
>conversion, perhaps try dd command do take an image of the partition
>to one on the other disk. I am not sure this will work though if the
>sector is broken.
>
>eg.
> 
>dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/dev/hdb3    
>(check dd documentation for more detailed options
>  
>

yep, it should work well (I already have rescued filesystems in this 
way, didn't remembered of this). If you want it to work, add the option 
conv=noerror. With the nonerror, it will skip all errors without 
stopping. I also think that (but not sure of... please check) the "sync" 
option has to be added to conv (ie add "conv=noerror,sync" to the dd 
command line), so that it will replace the bad blocks with "0" and keep 
the file system in a good shape...