Hello Antonio, I hope you know that dd creates an empty file when it's asked to copy zero bytes, and least on GNU/Linux.
dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1M count=0 seek=1 Maybe it's not portable, but it works for me. That's why I was surprised by the behavior of ddrescue. I googled "empty domain" and found that it's a mathematical term. I didn't know that. My university education wasn't in English. Perhaps ddrescue should be friendlier to users without advanced degrees. "Empty domain" from a piece of software sounded more like a network problem, perhaps due to a bogus argument to strerror(). I don't see anything wrong with "Nothing to do", even without "Empty domain". Except that both imply that copying data is the main purpose of ddrescue and extending the file is a minor preparation job that can be omitted if not needed. If "ddrescue" was written with that mentality and nobody except me sees that as an unpleasant surprise, I guess I should just accept it and use dd for extending files without copying. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
