Re: [Bug-ddrescue] How about a "don't care" block state?

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Ian,

Ian Abbott wrote:
> My idea is that it should be fairly easy to modify a utility such as
> 'partclone' (actually, a suite of utilities for cloning various file
> systems) to spit out a ddrescue log file.  If it spat out a '?' for the
> used areas of the file system and a 'X' (or whatever will mean "don't
> care") for the unused areas, this log file could be used by ddrescue to
> recover only the used areas of the file system, ignoring the unused areas.

I think this could be better done by using such generated logfile as 
argument to the option --domain-logfile. In this case '+' should be used 
for the used areas and '?' could be used for the "don't care" areas.


Best regards,
Antonio.