[NTLUG:Discuss] re: linux filecopy

[Fred]

On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 01:11 -0500, Kevin Korb wrote:
> dd if=[badfile] of=[newfile] bs=1k conv=noerror

Wouldn't that just pass the garbage from [badfile] to
[newfile]? I mean, if there are disk errors (bad sectors,
maybe?) causing the problem, won't the destination file also
be scribbled? Or do I just not understand the concept? 

Fred


		
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