Thanks for that - I'll install it and give it a try.


On Fri, 2022-11-18 at 18:34 +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Friday 18 November 2022 at 17:49:58, Peter Duffy wrote:
>
> > I've dug out an older SanDisk 1T SSD, and I'm just dd'ing the disk
> > which keeps borking to it - assuming it completes OK, I'll try
> > using
> > the SanDisk and see what happens.
>
> If you really do mean dd, I very much recommend using
> https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ (De{bi,vu}an package name
> gddrescue)
> instead.
>
> It gives progress output, is interruptible (and resumable) and is
> also very
> good for devices which genuinely do have errors on them.
>
>
> Antony.
>