Re: Question about dd

[Pádraig Brady]

Castor, David A Capt MNF-I JNCC-I Centaf LNO wrote:
> Regarding the dd tool, the man page seems to be lacking information
> about how noerror handles a read errors when encountered...does dd drop
> the entire block of data? does it pad the output to compensate for the
> unreadable data?

I don't think it does pad unreadable data.
Have a look at dd_rescue project
or the equivalent ddrescue project (I kid you not).

I wonder could the functionality of the above programs
be merged into dd as an option?

Pádraig.