Hello,
Russell Odom wrote:
I was trying to clone a failing disk (sda) to a new one (sdb), using the
command line...
ddrescue -f -n1 /dev/sda /dev/sdb mapfile
What an unfortunate mistake. :-(
The command line above is equivalent to:
ddrescue --force --no-scrape --log-rates=/dev/sda /dev/sdb mapfile
where infile = '/dev/sdb' and outfile = 'mapfile'.
There are no "invalid args not trapped".
To help avoid these mistakes in the future I'm making two changes to
ddrescue:
1) remove the short option names '-1' and '-2'.
2) never allow the writing of logs (--log-rates, --log-reads) to devices.
Thank you for reporting this.
Best regards,
Antonio.
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