Re: [Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.18-pre1 released

[Paul L Daniels]

On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 16:05:19 +0200
Antonio Diaz Diaz <address@hidden> wrote:

> GNU ddrescue 1.18-pre1 is ready for testing here
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.18-pre1.tar.lz
> 
> The sha1sum is:
> 92cdd452fbdb31e0eb95623251a608474c85e5de  ddrescue-1.18-pre1.tar.lz
> 
> Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Many thanks for bringing this out :)   I've got quite a few drives here
that I'll be testing it out on, including some with 'marginal
prefailure' symptoms, so it will be a good test.

One thing I was going to add in to the code (or you can do it :) ) is
to have a read-only option, since normally I do things like this;

        ddrescue -v -f /dev/sda /dev/null client-drive.log

With the read-only option it wouldn't bother writing data to /dev/null.

Paul.


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