Re: [Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.12 - errsize reported biggest than size of the rescued drive

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Vladimir,

Vladimir Krasilev wrote:
> I am not sure, is it feature of defect, more looks like as a defect to me.
>
> The errsize reported as  9223 PB on 160Gb drive. The ipos and opos looks
> also strange.
>
> This is on Windows XP HE SP3

For some reason ddrescue is unable to automatically determine drive size 
on at least some Macs and some Windozes. It seems the lseek function 
does not work as expected. So you'll have to use the -s option:

`-s BYTES'
`--max-size=BYTES'
     Maximum size of the input data to be copied, in bytes. If ddrescue
     can't determine the size of the input device, you may need to
     specify it with this option.


Regards,
Antonio.