partimage-ng

Write image to a device with bad blocks and work around them?

Asked by Gerry Boland

I see that partimage-ng is clever enough to skip bad blocks on the source drive when creating an image. But can it also write an image to a target drive with bad blocks in such a way that the bad blocks remain marked bad, and the files are worked around them?

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Best Dmitry Ivanov (vonami) said : 		#1

Unfortunately it cannot. Working around bad blocks when writing an image to a drive means moving the files from the bad blocks to good ones. That requires implementing full write support for each filesystem. Unless someone steps up that is unlikely to happen.

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Gerry Boland (gerboland) said : 		#2

As I thought. Such a capability is quite specialised. Thanks for your reply Dmitry.