![]() ![]() man -k to search for commands matching a keyword, whatis is a similar tool. Doesn't take much to get used to it old dogs like me hate doing things on Windows: "What GUI do I have to bring up to see the IP address and netmask?". Missing files and directories: if the device is automounted, trying to look at it may before it's mounted may give false results, sometimes things in graphical tools need a "refresh" to pick up changes.Įmbrace the terminal window/CLI. Slow to cd I've had that happen when your PATH includes directories that don't exist (this can be shell dependent). Slow to mount can be due to that sometimes. ![]() The original disk sdc1, what type of disk, how was it formatted? When the ddrescue finishes, you may want to try running fsck on it (file system checker) to see if it can correct anything that may be wrong. Some filesystems are better at dealing with it (RAIDs, mirrors, things with checksums, etc), but all suffer from damaged hardware to different extents. Damaged sectors can cause a bit of thrashing in code code tries to read a chunk, hardware has trouble reporting it, does retries, lather rinse repeat. Maybe it was working through a more damaged sector. Speed seems to have picked up overnight, so I'm just leaving it run. I'll bow out from here, but good luck, again, and I will watch with interest on your progress. this will instantly firewall you (not enabled by default in many 'buntu based Distros), and generate a script that will apply at every bootup/reboot. Last, if you have not done so yet in your Linux Adventure, you should run, from Terminal I note that the article mremski referred to appears to include some confusion over differences between ddrescue, dd_rescue, and of course gddrescue. should remedy that, if you wish the latest. Version I have listed there is 1.17-1.įrom GNU Project Archives listed here, latest version appears to be 1.19, but a run of If you are not already aware, Zorin ships with (g)ddrescue as a part of its (UBuntu-based) repository, accessible via Synaptic Package Manager. David4321 that article of mremski's is a good starting point by the looks of it.Īlbeit the article's origins appear dated, reading right to the end of the page/article shows input as recent as February just past. ![]()
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