Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:48:17 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem? Message-ID: <20120715234817.fcfb1489.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207152329290.2631@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <CA%2BtpaK0H=L8pcSkOxxAekfy2rQV49-sWof0FDPsutb8=04buUQ@mail.gmail.com> <64329.1342378317@tristatelogic.com> <20120715214823.679eb23d.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120715162333.45b82082@scorpio> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207152329290.2631@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:29:39 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > totally in error. SpinRite will attempt to read a damage sector up to > > 2000 times and through different algorithms determine what is most > > man dd > > conv=sync,noerror Even though it doesn't use different algorithms, programs like dd_rescue and ddrescue can also change the block size upon encountering read errors, and apply several cycles of read attempts. In worst case, there will be "gaps" in the result. Surely SpinRite is "more clever" than that, using some means to "extrapolate" the missing data. http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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