[Discuss] Help with I/O errors on RAID array?

[Bill Bogstad]

Yup, that's what I couldn't remember.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM Ron <ron at bclug.ca> wrote:
>
> Bill Bogstad wrote on 2025-10-14 15:34:
>
> > There is a "try really hard" copy command.   It will copy a file in
> > large chunks until it gets an error and then use seeks and smaller
> > block size reads to recover as much of the file as possible.  It will
> > also retry the bad single block reads multiple times in case it is a
> > temporary problem.  (More likely to work for magnetic media.)
>
> That sounds like `ddrescue` if anyone's interested.
>
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