Hi Udo, You mix two parts of the manual. The first quote is about general behavior of ddrescue, and is totally correct.
The second quote is from the "8 Fill Mode" chapter, because you can instruct ddrescue to fill different types of sectors with selected value, but only after you have run the default mode of ddrescue. You can use this method to test for damaged files, and your second quote is just from the recipe of how to do this. So ddrescue will not write zeros to bad sectors, but after you have made a rescue copy, you can fill different types of sectors with arbitrary values. Regards, Gábor > Hi all, > > I was wondering if I have a misconception of what ddrescue does when finding > bad blocks or if this is an error on the man pages (or at least on > www.gnu.org/s/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html): > > You write > > "Ddrescue does *not* write zeros to the output when it finds bad sectors in > the input, and does not truncate the output file if not asked to." > > Later on you write > > "6) Optionally fill the bad-sector blocks of the copied drive or image file > with zeros to restore the disc image." > > Shouldn't this be > > "Ddrescue *does write* zeros to the output when it finds bad sectors in the > input, and does not truncate the output file if not asked to." ? > > Cheers from Hamburg > _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
