Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue recognizes partition but not whole drive

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello,

Ian Solecki wrote:
> First let me thank you as many have before for ddrescue - it is a delightful
> tool.

You are welcome. :-)


> SO - given all of this I am wondering if there is somehow a way to get/trick
> ddrescue to start at the very end of the /sdc1 partition and just continue
> its way into the rest of the drive?  Or perhaps I am doing something wrong
> in what I have described here?  I have tried running ddrescue with simply
> /dev/sdc as the input but I receive an input/output error.  It runs on
> /dev/sdc1 but won't allow me to -i any further than the end of the
> partition.

If /dev/sdc2 is not recognized by the kernel, I guess you can only try 
/dev/sdc with an -i value equal to the starting position of partition 2.


Regards,
Antonio.