Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Disk size wrong?

[David Morrison]

> Hello David!
>
> This is expected behavior, when ddrescue can't figure out the input 
> file's size in advance.
> The behavior is normal on macOS, because ddrescue being (mostly) 
> strictly POSIX figures the size of the drive by using lseek( input, 
> 0, SEEK_END ), which unfortunately returns zero for both block 
> (/dev/diskX) and character devices (/dev/rdiskX) on macOS. I am 
> currently looking into alternative methods to improve that.

Florian, did you ever come up with a way to pick up the actual disk 
size on a Mac?

This was in relation to non-tried showing a value of 9223PB, and 
consequently pct rescued and remaining time were meaningless.

David