[Bug-ddrescue] Re: output the list of bablocks suitable for e2fsck -L

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Valerio,

Valerio Messina wrote:
> first of all, thanks for GNU ddrescue, it recover almost all my 160 GB
> 2.5" disk. Only 84 zones, 150 sectors, 75 KB remain unreadable, still
> retrying with -r9 -d, will see ...

You are welcome, and good luck with the retries. :-)


> In case of a know file system type, but almost all use block size of
> 4096, can be useful to output the list of badblock only.
> This list should be in a format suitable for commands like:
> e2fsck -vf -L badblocklist.txt /dev/sdaX
> so one block number per line, in decimal format, like the output of
> badblocks.
> The block size should be a parameter to ddrescue, when this output list
> is requested, to output the correct block number (like badblocks -b).
> 4096 can be the default.

This seems indeed an useful feature. I am thinking about adding a 
companion program to ddrescue (ddrescuelog ?) for non-rescue tasks, 
mostly logfile-related, like this. What do you think?


Best regards,
Antonio.