Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Merging two images from the same recovery....

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Mike,

Dependable-Mike wrote:
> Your assumptions were spot on, and your instructions clear. However, the
> command I ran on dir2 was slightly different... something like:
>     sudo ddrescue -i60G -v -n -a300k /dev/sdb image.iso recovery.log
>
> which was identical to the first capture (dir1), apart from the extra -i60G
> bit (which is only in the dir2 version).
>
> That means that my image in dir1 is 149GB whereas the image in dir2 is only
> 40GB (and is all data above 60G point). I'm assuming that the respective

I think there is an error here. "ddrescue -i60G" will always produce an 
image file larger than 60G. If the image in dir2 is only 40GB large, you 
ran out of disk space or didn't really typed the -i60G (or ddrescue has 
a bug).


> logfiles will automatically merge the files at the right points and know
> that the 40GB image fits in somewhere after 60G itself without needing any
> input from me, and therefore your commands as written in your example above
> still apply...

With -i60G ddrescue leaves the first 60GB untouched and writes to the 
image from there. Ddrescue does not relocate one image after the other.

At this point maybe it is better to continue the rescue in dir1 without 
trying to merge the image from dir2.


Regards,
Antonio.