ddrescue

[Berik]

I've just installed ddrescue, to attempt to rescue data from a hard disk with a lot of bad blocks.
But when I attempt to run ddrescue, it tells me:
sudo: ddrescue: command not found

Does anyone know how to run ddrescue?

I am using kubuntu 5.10

[tosszyx]

A useful tool for looking for file locations is: whereis

In this case:

$ whereis ddrescue
ddrescue:
$ whereis dd_rescue
dd_rescue: /bin/dd_rescue /usr/share/man/man1/dd_rescue.1.gz

So we know that we should called like dd_rescue. From there you are just a man dd_rescue away !.

[gotnix]

ddrescue is in gddrescue

clone dying drive to new drive

ddrescue -v -r 1 /dev/sdx /dev/sdx Recovery.log


clone dying drive to image

ddrescue -v -r 1 /dev/sdx disk-image.img Recovery.log


use -r 1 to minimize retries to 1 so that it won't kill your disk retrying the same sector over and over

always use a log file. if the process gets interrupted it will pick up where it left off when restarted.


one other thing, why dig up an old thread?