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Finding the file that is on a bad block on a HFS+ volume (debugfs for HFS+)
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I have a drive in our iMac that has bad blocks, as booting from an Ubuntu 11.10 live CD and using finds them. I'd like to get the drive to remap them by writing to the blocks, say using , but I don't want to do this without knowing what's in those blocks and finding the file that owns them, so I ca…
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ddrescue -f /dev/sda /dev/null
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Fix for: Finding the file that is on a bad block on a HFS+ volume (debugfs for HFS+)
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If you are running Lion, and look at the option which says it will print files given a list of block numbers. Note: I had to include on the command to force a check, otherwise it just reported for all the blocks in my list. Also, before attempting t…
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