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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">First of all: Thanks for your very fast
and helpful response.<br>
<br>
I copied actually only the partition, not the whole disk: <i>dd_rescue
--force -r1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdc1</i><br>
The cause for this is that I don't have enough space left on
another device to store a whole copy of the faulty disk. I thought
it would be possible, like in some examples I found with google,
that you can rescue a partition directly.<br>
<br>
<i>file -s /dev/sdc1</i> says:<br>
<i>/dev/sdc1: data</i><br>
<br>
The disks look like this (<i>fdisk -l</i>):<br>
<i>Disk /dev/sdc: 3000.6 GB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168
sectors</i><i><br>
</i><i>Units = Sektoren of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes</i><i><br>
</i><i>Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes</i><i><br>
</i><i>I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes</i><i><br>
</i><i>Disk identifier: 0xcba506ee</i><i><br>
</i><i><br>
</i><i> Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id
System</i><i><br>
</i><i>/dev/sdc1 256 732566645 366283195 83
Linux</i><i><br>
</i><i><br>
</i><i>Disk /dev/sdd: 2000.4 GB, 2000397852160 bytes, 3907027055
sectors</i><i><br>
</i><i>Units = Sektoren of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes</i><i><br>
</i><i>Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes</i><i><br>
</i><i>I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes</i><i><br>
</i><i>Disk identifier: 0x3c34826b</i><i><br>
</i><i><br>
</i><i> Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id
System</i><i><br>
</i><i>/dev/sdd1 63 3907024064 1953512001 83
Linux</i><br>
<br>
If it is not possible to rescue the partition this way I will have
to extend my to RAID5 so that I can put the copy of the faulty
disk on this one, like Michael explained in his answer. I just
hoped that I can avoid this, because it would save me more than
100€.<br>
<br>
As last information: The content of this copy is not totally lost,
actually only the last few files I have added. All the other stuff
is already stored on the RAID5, only the latest stuff is not
contained in this backup. So I don't loose everything if something
goes wrong (at least one thing :-) ).<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Benedikt<br>
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