[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.19-pre2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.19-pre2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.19-pre2.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
0744d32ddf40f920deb0d1346a3b22644a53fbd4  ddrescue-1.19-pre2.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or 
block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying to rescue the 
good parts first in case of read errors.

GNU Ddrescuelog is a tool that manipulates ddrescue logfiles, shows 
logfile contents, converts logfiles to/from other formats, compares 
logfiles, tests rescue status, and can delete a logfile if the rescue is 
done.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html


Changes in this version:

  * The splitting phase has been replaced by a "scraping" phase that 
scrapes together the data not recovered by the copying or trimming 
phases. Scraping reads each non-scraped block forwards, one sector at a 
time.

  * The long name of option "-n" has been changed to "--no-scrape".

  * The option "-l, --logfile-size" is no more needed and has been removed.

  * Trimming may now be run in reverse.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.