Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Telling me my drive is a directory and won't copy?

[psychosocial]

Thank you sir for the helpful advice. As we speak it is trying to recover the
data! Much thanks again!

andrew zajac-2 wrote:
> 
> That's because "/media/diskname" is a mountpoint, not a device.
> 
> If sdb is the device that is mounted there, you would want to first
> unmount it and then run ddrescue like this:
> 
> sudo ddrescue /dev/sdb1 /dev/sda1 log
> 
> Where sda1 is the target hard disk partition that you want to *overwrite*.
> 
> If you only want to create an image as a file on sda1, then mount it,
> change directory to it and run
> 
> sudo ddrescue /dev/sdb1 image log
> 
> Where "image" is the file and log is another file which is the recovery
> log.  You need to recovery log to be able to resume the process, if you
> interrupt it.
> 
> Good Luck!
> 
> Andrew Zajac
> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 10/9/08, psychosocial <address@hidden> wrote:
> From: psychosocial <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] Telling me my drive is a directory and won't copy?
> To: address@hidden
> Received: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 9:03 PM
> 
> Hey all, after searching around on various search engines and looking on
> here
> I thought I'd ask if you could help me.
> 
> I am currently trying to recover data from a USB HDD hooked up to Hardy
> Heron (Ubuntu) using ddrescue. My problem is that when I type the command
> (sudo ddrescue /media/diskname /dev/sda1), ddrescue starts but everything
> it
> tries to copy shows at the bottom "/media/diskname is a directory!" 
> 
> I read the man page but nothing jumped out to me at what I was wrong! If
> someone could give me pointers on the weird message it would be a great
> help. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Psychosocial 
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