Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Forgot the mapfile.....

[David Morrison]

At 13:54 +0100 15/2/19, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> David Morrison wrote:
> > I discovered this in the manual:
> >
> > 8 Saving the mapfile in case of trouble
>
> Unfortunately, if you did not specify a mapfile, then there is 
> nothing that can be currently done to get a mapfile except 
> extracting it (in binary undefined format) from the RAM image of 
> ddrescue.
>
> Maybe it can be implemented in a future version of ddrescue a way to 
> activate the emergency save in cases like yours, but it won't solve 
> your current problem. Sorry.

It may not be too bad. In this case, there appear to be 22 failed 
areas totalling under 1MB. This has not changed in a couple of 
retries, so I suspect the blocks are genuinely bad. I am unlikely to 
be doing anything else to the disk so the mapfile would not be 
useful. Instead I will copy the current destination disk and begin 
playing with that second copy.