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Re: dd: it doesn't continue after errors
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Mike Frysinger |
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Re: dd: it doesn't continue after errors |
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Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:01:59 -0500 |
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On Friday 28 December 2012 06:41:02 YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote:
> I am trying to blank a 160 GB hard disk drive but I got an error and dd
> doesn't want to continue: $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
> conv=noerror,sync
> dd: writing to `/dev/sdb': Input/output error
> 6160537+0 records in
> 6160536+0 records out
> 3154194432 bytes (3.2 GB) copied, 209.528 s, 15.1 MB/s
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> Only 3.2 GB have been copied...
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> Have you any idea on how to force dd to continue after errors?
look at `dmesg` and see if it's reporting errors. if so, consult the feedback
Pádraig and Bernhard provided.
-mike
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