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

[Paul L Daniels]

> 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.

Perhaps instead of "read-only", it could be "scan-only".  I know this
diverges from the 'rescue' aspect of ddrescue, but it's certainly the
best suited tool right now that I'm using :)

Paul.




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