Re: [Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.23-pre1 released

[Gábor STEFANIK]

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> From: Bug-ddrescue [mailto:bug-ddrescue-
> address@hidden On Behalf Of Antonio Diaz Diaz
> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 8:54 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.23-pre1 released
> 
> GNU ddrescue 1.23-pre1 is ready for testing here
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.23-
> pre1.tar.lz
> 
> The sha1sum is:
> ca57a155350712ba22792cb80d77ebdcb924d7d5  ddrescue-1.23-pre1.tar.lz
> 
> Please, test it and report any bugs you find.
> 
> GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block
> device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying to rescue the good parts 
> first
> in case of read errors.
> 
> Ddrescuelog is a tool that manipulates ddrescue mapfiles, shows mapfile
> contents, converts mapfiles to/from other formats, compares mapfiles, tests
> rescue status, and can delete a mapfile if the rescue is done.
> 
> The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
> 
> 
> Changes in this version:
> 
>    * The new option '--same-file' has been added. It allows infile and 
> outfile to
> be the same file or device. This can be used to test the writing ability of a
> drive. It can also be used to copy part of a file to another location inside 
> or
> beyond the end of the same file if '--input-position' and '--output-position'
> are different.

Are overlaps handled correctly (like bitblt)? That is, can I safely use this 
feature to e.g. shift a 20GB partition backwards on a disk by 2GB?

> 
> 
> Regards,
> Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.
> 
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