[ale] Failing external drive. Planning to DD the failing drive to new external drive. Help please

[dev null zero two]

you said the drive was failing - ddrescue is dd on steroids aka has a
decent amount of physical recovery options built in. it still creates a
traditional dd image.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Jim Kinney <jkinney at jimkinney.us> wrote:

> Correct. DD will create an exact drive partition copy. If you create a
> partition of the exact same size, blockwise and blocksize, an md5sum of the
> two partitions, old and new, will match.
>
> On November 12, 2015 10:58:48 AM EST, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Jim Kinney <jkinney at jimkinney.us>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The dd will migrate the format as well as the data so no need. However,
>>> you will need to create partitions on the new location that are at least
>>> the same size as the originals.
>>>
>>
>> So when I create the new partitions on the new drive don't (no need)
>> format them?
>>
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