Hi, first of all: thanks a lot for the great software, espcially for the logfile approach. My 2 cents are: if you reboot and use a udev enabled system, device names may change on reboot and you might not be aware of it. Identical command lines after reboot may in this way destroy all what you have done so far. At minimum, please warn in your man page (feel free to improve my English):
--- ddrescue.1 2012-06-11 19:23:26.000000000 +0200 +++ ddrescue.1.new 2012-10-08 16:16:58.000000000 +0200 @@ -112,6 +112,11 @@ Numbers may be followed by a multiplier: b = blocks, k = kB = 10^3 = 1000, Ki = KiB = 2^10 = 1024, M = 10^6, Mi = 2^20, G = 10^9, Gi = 2^30, etc... Time intervals have the format 1[.5][smhd] or 1/2[smhd]. +.br +.SH "BE AWARE" +Some systems may change device names on reboot (eg. udev enabled +systems). So, if you reboot, in any case check the devicenames before +restarting ddrescue. .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Report bugs to bug\[email protected] .br Regards M.Beier _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
