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Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux?

Date 2015-01-09 18:32 -0800
From Ant <ant@zimage.comANT>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux?
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On 1/4/2015 1:07 PM, Ant wrote:

>>>> https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html
>>>
>>> "If you use a device or a partition as destination, any data stored
>>> there will be overwritten." I don't want to erase anything on my
>>> destinated drive (/dev/sdb*) though.
>>
>> Then just use a plain file instead of a device or a partition as
>> destination.
>
> OK. I need to make free disk space before I do that.

I resumed since I finally found free time. I decided to do an image from 
scratch since people told me to do that instead, but it looks like I run 
out of disk space on the destination external USB2 HDD. This probably 
why it failed from partition to partition too last weekend. The original 
data used is about 30 GB. Why would it need to fill up the whole drive?

# time ddrescue -r -1 /dev/sda5 /media/storage2/CopiedDyingSDA5 ImageFileLog
GNU ddrescue 1.16
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
rescued:    78579 MB,  errsize:    119 MB,  current rate:   14811 kB/s
    ipos:    78698 MB,   errors:      46,    average rate:   12289 kB/s
    opos:    78698 MB,     time since last successful read:       0 s
Copying non-tried blocks...
ddrescue: write error: No space left on device

real    106m34.617s
user    0m2.536s
sys     23m53.486s


Isn't 70 GB free enough for this? How much disk space do I really need 
for this? This is sure frustrating. :(
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How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-04 06:55 -0800
  Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a  dying old HDD in Linux? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-01-04 09:23 -0600
    Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-04 09:19 -0800
      Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-01-04 18:27 +0000
        Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-01-04 13:54 -0600
          Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2015-02-19 19:00 -0500
      Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2015-01-05 14:10 +0100
  Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2015-01-04 15:39 +0000
    Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-04 09:25 -0800
      Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2015-01-04 17:49 +0000
        Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-04 13:07 -0800
          Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-01-04 21:57 +0000
        Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-09 18:32 -0800
          Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Gernot Fink <g.fink@gmx.net> - 2015-01-10 08:42 +0100
            Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-10 07:51 -0800
              Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Gernot Fink <g.fink@gmx.net> - 2015-01-10 20:38 +0100
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-10 17:24 -0800
          Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-01-10 03:35 +0000
          Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-01-10 03:54 +0000
      Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-01-04 18:12 +0000
        Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a  dying old HDD in Linux? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-01-04 12:26 -0600
      Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-01-04 23:23 +0000
      Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2015-01-05 14:11 +0100
  Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-01-04 18:07 +0000
    Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-04 13:10 -0800
      Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-01-04 22:09 +0000
        Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-04 15:25 -0800
        Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2015-01-06 20:25 +0000
      Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-01-04 22:12 +0000
        Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-04 15:26 -0800
          Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-01-05 00:21 +0000
            Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-04 18:32 -0800
            Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-04 19:36 -0800
              Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2015-01-06 08:58 -0600
            Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-09 18:33 -0800
              Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2015-01-10 08:21 -0600
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-10 07:47 -0800
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Gernot Fink <g.fink@gmx.net> - 2015-01-10 20:45 +0100
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2015-01-11 08:04 -0600
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-11 10:14 -0800
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-11 10:20 -0800
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2015-01-11 19:23 -0600
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-12 22:44 -0800
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2015-01-13 08:39 -0600
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-14 08:33 -0800
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-01-14 17:20 +0000
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-15 00:46 -0800
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-17 17:59 -0800
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2015-01-18 08:45 -0600
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-18 14:04 -0800
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2015-02-19 22:15 -0500
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-02-20 22:47 -0800
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2015-01-14 23:05 -0600
                Re: How to force copy retries until finally copied all due to a dying old HDD in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-15 00:43 -0800
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