Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Suggestions to rename "logfile"

[Felix Ehlermann]

Dear all,

two suggestions from my side:

1) Just output the warning (without waiting for confirmation). This way it
won't impact any experienced users (or their habits of) using ddrescue.
One additional line of output should not bother anyone.
People who start ddrescue to recover their data and ignore output similar to
"WARNING: You did not specify a mapfile - this is usually a bad idea! Did
you read manual section 5?" might be too far away from the target audience
anyway.

2) Alternatively make the logfile a mandatory parameter only if --force is
not used.
This way ddrescue can be used as a replacement for dd (Antonio and others
seem to do this). Inexperienced users hopefully won't use --force anyway..

Kind Regards
Felix

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Robert Trevellyan
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. Juli 2015 14:55
An: dd-rescue
Betreff: Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Suggestions to rename "logfile"

I like this idea.

Robert Trevellyan

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Scott Dwyer <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 7/22/2015 9:18 PM, Florian Sedivy wrote:
>
>> So I want to find another convenient way for the experienced user to run
>> without the mandatory mapfile.
>>
> Not sure if anyone will like this idea, but what about using --no-mapfile,
> but only to bypass a warning with a pause that just requires pressing
enter
> to continue?
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