Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Small suggestion regarding the tutorial (in the online doc)

[Paul L Daniels]

Good day all,


> > Also, I would like to point out that it might be useful to offer a
> > hint or two at how to distinguish the disks in such cases...
> 
> I would be more than happy to offer such hints, if I knew them. Ideas 
> about this are welcome.

        All I can say is that this is a genuine fear of mine almost
        every time I start a ddrescue process, such to the point where
        I invariably first do an image creation to a temporary
        drive/server and *then* write the captured image to the new
        drive. It takes twice the time, but you have the advantage of
        having a backup image and you don't need to worry about
        mistakes since one parameter is the drive /dev/sdX, the other
        is a file/image.

        For when I really *must* do a drive-to-drive all I can suggest
        is to examine the brand/model of the drive and compare it to
        the output in hdparm -i

                ~$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda
                Model=ST9750420AS, FwRev=0001SDM5, SerialNo=6WS30ZXA

        It's a risky process, so the only thing you can do is to triple
        check all your settings *before* pressing enter.

        Good luck.

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