Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Outfile destination size

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Mateo Leyba wrote:
> I have a 500G drive that contained aprox 320G of data that dumped on me, I
> am recovering to a 1T drive that had 800G avail on it. Everything was going
> well but my copy stopped over the weekend with a No space let on device
> error, my image so far is approx 800G. This is confusing me, how is my image
> copy larger than the original disk? I just dumped the extra stuff on the
> recovery destination to give me the full 1T and resumed the copy and it's
> back at it, but I obviously did not allow myself enough room for the
> recovery, how much space do I really need and can I resume this on yet
> another drive if space runs out again without starting over?

Try reading these messages:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ddrescue/2008-12/msg00021.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ddrescue/2007-10/msg00012.html

Next time try to be more explicit. You say nothing about your setup or 
the commands you used.


Regards,
Antonio.