Hi, I remember a thread here, asking for a data recovery tool in GNU/Linux. I came across the following news today that version 1.13 of GNU ddrescue has been released.
I have not used this tool. Anyway, I hope that sharing the news might help someone. If anybody have already used this please update here. GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html. The sources can be downloaded from http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ddrescue/ or from your favorite GNU mirror. This version is also available in lzip format. If your distro doesn't yet distribute the lzip program, you can download it from http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html The md5sums are: 0afc4130882a993772385629d1c0a32e ddrescue-1.13.tar.gz 00cd788fbd6bc5a6205c3199f7557fda ddrescue-1.13.tar.lz This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by appending ".sig" to the URL. Changes in version 1.13: * Non-regular output files are no more overwritten by default. * The option "--force", which forces overwriting of non-regular output files has been added. * The option "--preallocate", which preallocates space on disc for the output file has been added. * The command line used is now written to the logfile as information for the user. * Even more warnings have been added to the tutorial in the manual. * Revert to use "long" instead of "time_t" for time variables. Ddrescue only needs counting seconds and "time_t" causes warnings on some systems. Please send bug reports and suggestions to [email protected] -- நன்றிகளுடன், விக்னேஷ். _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
