Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Help rescuing my 500GB disk

[Andrej Trobentar]

On 11/15/2013 11:16 PM, Scott Dwyer wrote:
> I am only going to answer part of your questions, ask one, and add
> something.
> > -  will ddrescue automatically stop when it reaches the end of the
> > used portion of the partition (315720 MB in my case) or must I end it
> > with CTRL+C?
>
> Ddrescue will exit when it is done doing what you told it to do,
> considering all the options you provided it. The only thing the domain
> file does is cause ddresuce to only make attempts at the areas specified
> in the domain file (in this case the used portion of the partition). So
> when it is done trying the area specified in the domain file (again,
> considering all the other options provided to ddrescue), it will exit on
> its own.

Well, I have now reached the 315720MB border and ddrescue didn't stop 
and just continues :\

"ddrescue -vvvv -n -m /tmp/domain_logfile /dev/sdc1 /tmp/Image.img 
/tmp/Image.log"


GNU ddrescue 1.16
About to copy 315720 MBytes from /dev/sdc1 to /tmp/Image.img
    Starting positions: infile = 0 B,  outfile = 0 B
    Copy block size: 128 sectors       Initial skip size: 128 sectors
Sector size: 512 Bytes
Max retries: 0
Direct: no    Sparse: no    Split: no    Truncate: no

Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Initial status (read from logfile)
rescued:   120531 MB,  errsize:  68529 MB,  errors:    2804
current position:    321094 MB,     current sector: 627137298
last block size:        4096 B

Current status
rescued:   120566 MB,  errsize:  68529 MB,  current rate:     262 kB/s
   ipos:   321129 MB,   errors:    2804,    average rate:     276 kB/s
   opos:   321129 MB,     time since last successful read:       0 s
Copying non-tried blocks...


What now? :)


Greetings,

        Andrej.