[sf-lug] sf-lug meets monday evening from 6 PM to 8 PM

Kristian Erik Hermansen kristian.hermansen at gmail.com
Tue May 20 00:37:15 PDT 2008


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
> I thought I'd reply to my own message to chat about the problems some of
> you saw with my ThinkPad.  /sbin/badblocks tells me the hard drive has bad
> sectors, which may explain the hangs - Lenovo is shipping me out a
> replacement disk really soon (probably Tuesday or Wednesday it'll get
> here).  I'm not going to power it on in the immediate future except to run
> GNU ddrescue to pull the data off.

Asheesh, can you or anyone else explain the difference between
ddrescue and dd_rescue!!?!?  I've been wondering that for a while!!!
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
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