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

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Scott Dwyer wrote:
> Request:
> IF you do this, PLEASE include an option flag to bypass it, for those of 
> us that may call ddrescue from another program.

Don't worry. If I do this, I'll include an option to _activate_ it. Just 
like the '--verify-input-size' option is implemented now. The main task 
of ddrescue is to copy data. Safeguards are nice but secondary.


> You would be stuck relying on an outside program, but they would be 
> likely to give proper results as they have been around awhile.

Using an external program from ddrescue seems too complicated. Maybe all 
this just finishes as some recommendations in the manual.

OTOH, the external program to use could be provided as an argument to 
the activating option, like in '--show-serial-number=hdparm'


Paul L Daniels wrote:
> ddrescue will copy 200GB:
>  from /dev/sda [ ST2011932MZX, 200GB ](sda1,<sda2> sda5)
>  to /dev/sdc [ WD200032BTHA, 2TB ] ( )
>
> Proceed (y/N) ?

Looks nice, but getting the partitions can be a problem, and they will 
probably show identical after the first run.


Best regards,
Antonio.