Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue: Can't open input file: Permission denied

[Kevin Okie]

Dear All,

I am sincerely appreciative of your help! adding "sudo" and the
"--force" command to the front absolutely did the trick.

It's copying well. Thank you all!

Kevin


On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Zeniff Martineau wrote:
>>
>> "The format for running ddrescue is:
>>       ddrescue [options] infile outfile [mapfile]"
>
>
> This is true, but ddrescue uses Arg_parser and allows the options to be
> placed anywhere in the command line:
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/arg-parser/manual/arg_parser_manual.html#Argument-syntax
>
>
>> Otherwise, I think it's taking "/media/(user)/recoverylogfile.txt" as
>> the outfile name and "--force" as the log/mapfile name (just my
>> guess).
>
>
> There is no way for ddrescue to take "--force" as the mapfile unless you
> precede it with "--" or type it as "./--force".
>
>
>> Maybe ddrescue could do a command format check before running (it does
>> already show "while" it's running), or maybe output what it thinks are
>> the options used were even on an error like that?
>
>
> Ddrescue checks the command line before running it. Maybe you mean "--ask"?
>
> --ask
>     Ask for user confirmation before starting the copy. If the first
>     letter of the answer is 'y', ddrescue starts copying. Else it exits
>     with status 1.
>     If they can be obtained, ddrescue shows the model and serial number
>     of the input and output devices. Else it shows the size in bytes of
>     the corresponding file or device.
>
>
> AFAICT, this problem is just a lack of read permission on /dev/sdb3.
>
>
> Best reagrds,
> Antonio.