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

[David Morrison]

At 11:18 +1000 15/2/19, Robert Backhaus wrote:
> If the disk you are writing too was blank before you started - i.e. it was
> either new or had been filled with zeros - you can use -G (--generate-mode)
> to create an approximate mapfile.
>
> ddrescue --generate-mode infile outfile mapfile
>
> It will read the entire outfile and generate a mapfile that assumes that
> anything with data is recovered data, and anything with zeros is
> unrecovered.
>
> If the destination disk had data on it, however, you can't be sure what is
> old data and what is good, recovered data

Unfortunately, while the disk had been formatted, it was only a quick 
format, so most of the rubbish on the disk will still be there. :-(

David