[ale] Fwd: Hard Drive Death Spiral -- AKA Recovery Software?

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote:

> If you aren't having read errors, all of the 100 MB files
> would read successfully, and you'd be able to just cat them
> together.

ddrescue discovered 8 errors that are 4096 k in 115 gigs of data.

In concept, I understand your suggestion:

(A) Break the data into 100 MB chunks.
(B) Reassembling  the data using a cat.

I don't know how to break the data into smaller chunks; with dd or
ddrescue perhaps? Split doesn't seem right. The cat part seems pretty
straight forward however.

And Oh! Thanks for the response.